384 Results for tag: Title IX
Back in late 2008, rumors were swirling at the University of Delaware that most of the men's track and field program was under threat thanks to
Title IX concerns. In the end, only the men's indoor track team was demoted to club status, but it's clear that the experience had an impact on Emily Nassi, Managing Sports Editor of The Review, the student newspa...
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Last month, as part of the the National Women's Law Center's high school
Title IX initiative, the organization filed a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights against the Deer Valley School District in Arizona, and the editorial board at the Arizona Republic is less than impressed:
[T]he history of
Title IX complaints on the college level presages bleak ...
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In a few minutes, the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) will be holding a teleconference to announce a "substantial
Title IX initiative" aimed at high school sports. To say the least, high school athletes and their parents ought to be concerned about this announcement.
If things take the same course as they have in college athletics, that means the NWLC ...
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The following statement on the National Women's Law Center's Rally for Girls' Sports initiative can be attributed to Eric Pearson, Chairman of the College Sports Council:
The NWLC plan is clearly designed to expand the enforcement of gender quotas in high school sports.
We've been warning parents and coaches that the gender quota is coming to high ...
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Earlier this month, I sent a note to Jamie Trecker at Fox Sports about the study the College Sports Council released earlier this year concerning Division I NCAA Soccer and
Title IX. I was inspired to send my message to Trecker after I saw he had put an item out on his Twitter feed that college hockey was somehow able to avoid the fate that had befallen ...
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We've warned our readers many times about the danger that runaway
Title IX enforcement poses to high school athletics. Earlier today, we got some news out of Pennsylvania that should send a chill up the spine of any parent who participates in a booster club for a high school sport—and what the College Sports Council believes is a deliberate misinterpret...
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The News Journal, a paper in Delaware, reported some additional details about the settlement the school reached this week with the members of its Equestrian team:
DSU officials, in a press release Friday, said they will "embrace" their obligation to provide increased opportunities for women in varsity sports. "DSU commits to achieving gender equity within ...
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All over the country, we see that the basic message about the damage gender quotas is doing to interscholastic athletics is getting out. However, fewer folks seem to understand that the reach of
Title IX could very well be coming to a college major near you.
Here's a passage from an excellent opinion piece that appeared this morning in The Beacon, the ...
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Back in May 2009, we called attention to the fact that female soccer players in New York City were opposed to a plan to move girls high school soccer to the Fallso it could compete in the same season as boys soccer. The move was spurred as part of a settlement forced on the the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) by the New York Civil Liberties Union ...
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Over at Swimming World, Kevin Weissman, the parent of a college swimmer, is calling attention to the inequities that
Title IX enforcement has created in college swimming:
The opportunity to participate also is not equitable. According to the NCAA Sports Sponsorship and Participation Rates Report, for the 2008/2009 academic year, there were 510 women's ...
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