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Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government .
Education Amendments of 1972; 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.
The topic of debate centered around interpretations of the Title IX Education Amendments of 1972, and whether transgender students fall under its protection. [64] In 2015 freshman Elliot Yoder asked the administration to use the boys locker room to change for his PE class.
Title IX, the 37-word statute that helped spur a decades-long women’s sports boom, turns 50 years old on Thursday. ... In 1972, some 300,000 girls played high school sports; they were 7% of all ...
The regulation expanded Title IX, a 1972 law forbidding discrimination based on sex in education, to also prevent discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation. It also expanded ...
U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, chief jurist for the Eastern District of Kentucky, ruled on Thursday that the administration’s rewrite of Title IX violated the Constitution. The 1972 law ...
Sexual or gender harassment [2] is a form of discrimination under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. [3] Sexual harassment involves a range of behavior from mild annoyances to unwanted touching and, in extreme cases, rape or other sexual assault .
Title IX, passed in 1972, is a law that bars sex discrimination in education. The ruling Monday in Kentucky was applauded by the state’s Republican attorney general, Russell Coleman, who said ...