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Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that Title IX, which applies only to colleges and universities that receive federal funds, could be applied to a private school that refused direct federal funding but for which a large number of students had received federally funded scholarships.
The Obama administration's efforts to apply Title IX to protect LGBT students go back to President Obama's first term in office. [7] In an October 2010 "Dear Colleague" letter, the OCR issued guidance on clarifying that Title IX protects LGBT students from harassment on the basis of sex stereotypes. [8]
2024 was a busy one in the education world, from the Biden administration’s administrative changes to Title IX and the subsequent legal fights challenging their legality to the continued decline ...
Title IX is a federal statute from 1972 that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and universities that receive federal funds, including in athletics, and protects against sexual harassment.
Biden's Title IX rewrite has been vacated nationwide.” The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression said that the court’s decision protects students’ rights beyond K-12.
In 2010, OCR released one such letter stating that while Title IX did not prohibit LGBT-based discrimination, it did prohibit discrimination toward LGBT students based wholly or in-part on sex. [7] A 2014 document from OCR later stated that Title IX covered gender identity and gender nonconformity based discrimination.
The judge found Title IX was intended to level the educational playing field between men and women by barring discrimination "on the basis of sex" under any education program or activity receiving ...