In November, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced it had resolved a complaint against Salem-Keizer School District No. 24J in Oregon, filed for inequitable athletics access for girls. Current Title IX regulations require schools and...
On September 30, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced it had resolved a complaint of racial harassment filed against Peoria Unified School District in Arizona. OCR determined that the district violated Title VI of the Civil Rights...
Readers may recall that the May 2020 Title IX Final Rule does not include information about pregnancy or related conditions. The 2020 regulations covered a narrow set of conduct, specifically, sexual harassment and sexual and interpersonal violence. Title IX has long...
The comment period closed on September 12, 2022 for the Title IX proposed regulations. You can find up-to-date information about the number of comments and view many comments on regulations.gov. As of September 13, that page showed 235,816 total comments received and...
One talking point emerging from the release of the Proposed Title IX Rule is that colleges and universities are going to abandon live hearing models in sexual misconduct resolutions. However, rumors of the death of live hearings are probably off-base. Instead, we may...
Over the past decade, protections for LGBTQI+ students have changed frequently and dramatically with each political administration. Guidance issued during the Obama administration explicitly stated that LGBTQI+ students were protected under Title IX, but, like other...
