A US flag and an Education Department flag fly outside the building of the US Department of Education on February 4, in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images

A little-known civil rights office in the Department of Education that helps resolve complaints from students across the country about discrimination and accommodating disabilities has been gutted by the Trump administration and is now facing a ballooning backlog, a workforce that’s in flux and an unclear mandate.

Even those who work there say they wouldn’t trust the agency to help their own children.

“It’s a black hole – there’s no staffing, there’s no rhyme or reason to what they’re doing, and there’s not a mission to actually effectuate civil rights laws,” said a longtime lawyer in the office. At this point, the employee

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