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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.
Title IX - U.S. federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs; Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law making it easier to move civil rights cases from U.S. state courts to federal court; Title 9 of the United States Code - the role of arbitration in the United States Code
The Ninth Amendment (Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights .
Mar. 3—For Heather Van Mullem, the future of Title IX looks like a starry night sky. One person is like a star. If one person shines, they create a little light, then more and more people are ...
Billie Jean King reflects on why Title IX is so important for women's sports and why she has dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights. Elliott: Billie Jean King on how Title IX went from ...
Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist. She is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s.
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.
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.