In March, the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington ruled against a school district in favor of a student with intellectual disabilities, who was awarded $500,000 by a jury based on the district’s failure to address repeated […]
Category: News and Decisions
OCR Provides Update on Rulemaking Process for Title IX
February 24, 2022
In December, the Biden Administration announced that it plans to release new Title IX draft rules to the public by April 2022. (See our previous post on the announcement here.) Last week, the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights […]
OCR Dismisses LGBTQ+ Complaint Based on Title IX Religious Exemption
February 22, 2022
In a highly anticipated decision earlier this month, OCR reaffirmed the broad discretion that religious institutions may have under the religious exemption in Title IX. Title IX provides that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of […]
Third Circuit Finds that Deliberate Indifference to Third-Party Conduct May Lead to Title IX Liability
February 22, 2022
In January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed that Title IX provides adequate notice to federal funding recipients of their responsibility to respond to known sexual harassment if they have control over the context and harasser, […]
Biden Administration to Propose New Title IX Rules by April 2022
December 14, 2021
As a presidential candidate, now-President Biden promised that he would put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX rules. Aiming to keep that promise, the Department of Education announced its intention to release proposed amendments to Title IX’s implementing regulations by April 2022, a month earlier […]
Biden Administration to Propose New Title IX Rules by April 2022
December 14, 2021
As a presidential candidate, now-President Biden promised that he would put a “quick end” to the Trump administration’s 2020 Title IX rules. Aiming to keep that promise, the Department of Education announced its intention to release proposed amendments to Title IX’s implementing regulations by April 2022, a month earlier […]
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, recently issued a Notice of Interpretation stating that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ students and employees in public schools, colleges, universities, and […]
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, recently issued a Notice of Interpretation stating that Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination against LGBTQ+ students and employees in public schools, colleges, universities, and […]