Last week we blogged about the lawsuit threatened by a father in Seaside, Oregon, challenging the school district's omission of girls' softball from its arrangement to use the premier municipal athletic complex for high school football and baseball.
This week, school officials announced that Broadway Field would be available to a broader number of high school teams, including the girls softball team, in upcoming seasons. However, Randy Anderson has vowed to press his lawsuit anyway. According to this article, he believes there are other Title IX inequities that still have not been addressed.
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.
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 ...