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Will the Title IX Rule Come out in May?
NSYNC or Oasis? Who’s the Sage?NSYNC or Oasis? Who’s the Sage?As we shared in January, the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) maintains a website to share information about rulemaking. The page for the 2022 Title IX proposed rules includes a...
Chat GPT for Clery Act Compliance?
Chat GPT for Clery Act Compliance?Can ChatGPT perform our compliance requirements? The Clery Act requires colleges and universities to report campus crime data, including posting timely warnings. Joe Storch and Andrea Stagg of Grand River Solutions find out the limits...
OCR Addresses Restraint and Seclusion Protocols Impacting Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in Secondary Education
On December 7, 2022 and December 16, 2022, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced separate resolution agreements with the Davis Joint Unified School District (DJUSD), California and Southeastern Cooperative Educational Programs...
Department of Education Tentatively Sets May Publication Date for Title IX Regulations
According to the regulatory agenda, the Title IX final regulations are expected this May. To maintain transparency, the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management & Budget provides public notices on these regulations. The listed...
OCR Announces Resolution Agreement of Title IX Athletics Investigation of Salem-Keizer School District No. 24J in Oregon
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...
OCR Announces Resolution Agreement of Racial Harassment Investigation of Peoria Unified School District in Arizona
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...
Pregnancy and Related Conditions: Comparing Existing Title IX Regulations with the 2022 Proposed Rules
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...
Comment Period Is Closed: Over 240,000 Comments on the 2022 Title IX Proposed Regulations
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...
Are Live Hearings Still Alive? Considering the Intersection of the Proposed Rule and Federal and State Precedent
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...
Proposed Title IX Rules Have Groundbreaking Protections For LGBTQI+ People
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...