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Education Department's Office for Civil Rights(OCR)has failed to enforcethe nation's federal civil rights laws in schools and colleges that discrim-inate against blacks,the handicapped and women,according to a congressionalreport released yesterday.  \nA long-awaited 66-page summary of an investigation by the House Intergovern-mental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee on OCR's effectiveness inenforcing four civil rights laws concludes that both OCR and the JusticeDepartment have\"failed to obtain complete enforcement remedies in cases whereserious violations of law were found.\"  \nViolations Found      During the Reagan administration,OCR found 2,000 civi1rights violations by school districts and colleges,but took only 26 of thoseto administrative enforcement hearings and referred only 24 additional casesto Justice for enforcement,the subcommittee found.  \nOf those 24 cases,16 still have not been reviewed after more than two years,five were returned to OCR,one is tied up by a pending lawsuit and two wereresolved by consent decree,the House panel found.  \nMost of the administrative enforcement items and Justice referrals were initia-ted only after a federal court order in 1983 required OCR to secure compliancein pending cases,the report says.Until that time,\"OCR rarely sought en-forcement when violations of law were found,\"the subcommittee reported.  \nYear-Long Investigation The panel's report is the result of a year-longInvestigation and two congressionai hearings--one last July and another in Sep-tember--that saw heated exchanges between panel Chairman Ted Weiss,D-N.Y.,and former ED Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Harry Singleton(HED,Sept.  \n12,1985)。  \nBefore leaving office last Tuesday,Singleton issued a statement on the subcom-mittee investigation.\"This is ridiculous,\"he said.\"It is a lot ofnonsense.\"ED,however,has not commented officially on the report,althoughitis expected to do so,said a department spokeswoman.  \n0CR is mandated by federal court order under the 13-year-old Adams v.Bell caseto comply with time frames to conduct investigations of civil rights viola-tions and discrimination in the nation's schools and colleges.Under the timeframes,ED must complete its investigation within 90 days of receiving a com-plaint,finish settlement negotiations within another 90 days and take en-forcement action,if necessary,within the next 30 days.If ED cannot settlethe claim,it is sent to Justice(HED,March 14,1983).(more)  \nS  \n6  \n# OCR NOT DOING ITS JOB EFFECTIVELY,HOUSE PANEL FINDS(Cont.)\n\nThe House panel recommends that OCR develop enforcement guidelines specifyingwhich cases should be referred to Justice and which resolved through admin-istrative enforcement proceedings.  \n\"The haphazard OCR enforcement decisionmaking process has often resulted incases involving clear violations of law languishing at DOJ [Department ofJustice]for two years or more,\"the report says.  \nThe investigation also revealed that OCR ignored the findings of its ownquality assurance staff,and instead of acting on its recommendations,dis-banded it.Also included among the report's findings is that OCR intends tocontinue to rely on a\"good faith\"standard,rather than measuring actualachievements,despite OCR's findings that many state systems have not elim1-nated the vestiges of illegal dual systems of education.  \nNot Satisfactory\"Good faith efforts to correct illegal discriminationwhich are unsuccessful do not satisfy the requirements of Title VI\"of theCivil Rights Act of 1964,the report says.  \nTitle VI bars discrimination on the basis of race,color or national origin infederally assisted programs or activities.OCR is also charged with enforcingcivil rights statutes that bar bias against the handicapped,the aged andWomen.  \nIn addition,the report says,OCR cannot ensure that more than 300 cases set-tled by early complaint resolution were resolved according to 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