An interdisciplinary resource for news, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Petition for data collection in high schools
As we have noted previously, there is a bill currently in the US House of Representatives that calls for the collection of data about gender equity in athletics in high schools--similar to that collected by the Department of Education. If you would like to urge Congress to pass the High School Athletics Accountability Act, you can go here and sign the petition. Your email address is required but will not be displayed. You can also choose not to have your name displayed.
Bad investigations
The more I learn about the ins and outs of Title IX (and Title VI) investigations, the more pessimistic I become about the ability of these...
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Three former employees of Feather River College (Quincy, California) pressed their Title IX retaliation claims at a two-week hearing before...
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In the wake of the Quinnipiac case, in which it seemed that the university somewhat spitefully cut men's track and field when it was tol...
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The NCAA has come out with a very clear position on sexual relationships between coaches and student-athletes. They are wrong. They are a ...