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Students Discrimination Title IX

TNG Consulting

Implementation Day Arrived, For Some. What’s Next?

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On the morning of August 1, 2024, Title IX experts from TNG Consulting and ATIXA participated in a webinar hosted by the Department of Education (ED) regarding the 2024 Title IX Rule. During the session, U.S. Secretary of...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Ready, Set, Wait: Eleventh Circuit Grants Last-Minute Title IX Injunction in Southeastern States

Less than 24 hours before classroom bells were set to ring in schools across the southeastern United States, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order administratively blocking the implementation of the 2024 Title...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Discrimination in Education: Do You Have a Title IX claim, a Title VII claim, or Can You Bring Both?

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) both act to prevent discrimination. While Title VII governs employment relationships; Title IX applies in...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

District Court Enjoins EEOC and Department of Education Guidance Protecting LGBTQ Rights

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On July 15, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee entered a preliminary injunction barring the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Education (ED) from enforcing...more

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Title IX Celebrates 50 Years and the U.S. Department of Education Releases Proposed Changes to Title IX Regulations

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June 23, 2022, marked the 50-year anniversary of Title IX, as well as the release date of the U.S. Department of Education’s (USDOE) long-awaited proposed changes to the Title IX regulations for federally funded elementary...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

OCR Releases Resource on School Re-openings and Student Rights

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) has published an extended Q&A designed to support educational institutions in protecting student rights and interests within the context of both virtual and...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

Check Please: OCR’s Future in the Wake of Proposed Budget Cuts

Published reports indicate that President Trump’s proposed budget includes what is approximately a fifty percent reduction in the prior fiscal year’s funding for the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil...more

Franczek P.C.

Administration Withdraws Transgender Guidance While Considering Legal Issues

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of Education (DOE) jointly issued a statement rescinding the guidance on transgender students’ rights under Title IX issued to school districts nationwide in May. The prior...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

When Is A School District “Deliberately Indifferent” To Student Discrimination Claims?

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When a student alleges discrimination within the school environment, the school district may be held liable if it was “deliberately indifferent” to the discrimination. Three recent cases involving allegations of sexual...more

Pullman & Comley - School Law

Deliberate Indifference to Bullying Can Amount to Massive Liability – Lessons from the Pine Bush Settlement

$4.48 million. That’s how much the Pine Bush School District in central-New York just agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of current and former students who alleged that school administrators were...more

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Court Affirms Three-Part Title IX Test Applies to High Schools

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In a recent decision, Ollier v. Sweetwater Union High School District, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a trial court finding that a public school district intentionally discriminated and retaliated against female...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

College Settles Pregnancy Discrimination Complaint

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The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) announced earlier this week that Logan University in Missouri settled a pregnancy discrimination complaint that the NWLC filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil...more

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The Basics Of Complying With The “Dear Colleague” Letter Issued By The U.S. Department Of Education On April 4, 2011

This is part one of a four-part series discussing compliance with the “Dear Colleague" Letter on Sexual Violence issued by U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on April 4, 2011, as well as subsequently...more

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