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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...
A Closer Look at the Title IX Proposed Rules: Coordination Between Title IX and Disability/Accessibility Services
As keen readers may have noticed, the Department of Education included many references to disability throughout its 2022 proposed Title IX regulations and in the 500+ page preamble that explains why certain changes or additions are being proposed. While some of the...
CHIPS and Science Act Includes Efforts to STEM Sexual Harassment
CHIPS and Science Act Includes Efforts to STEM Sexual Harassment CHIPS Act of 2022 Recent legislation includes significant policy changes relating to sexual harassment for funding recipients in the STEM fields. This legislation also includes tens of millions...
Meet Omar Torres
We are pleased to announce our newest Director of Strategic Partnerships and Client Relations, Dr. Omar Torres. Dr. Torres will work with schools and collectives across the southeast region in his role at Grand River Solutions. Managing Director Jody Shipper shares,...
Federal Judge Blocks LGBTQI+ Protections In 20 States
On July 15, 2022 a federal judge in Tennessee blocked enforcement of some federal agency guidance in twenty states* whose attorneys general had sued the agencies. Those documents, issued by the Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,...