383 Results for tag: Title IX
Yesterday we tuned into the National Women’s Law Center’s (NWLC) webinar, “Rally for Girls’ Sports: A Guide To
Title IX for Parents, Coaches, and School Officials.” Unfortunately for those of us tuning in, we heard the same incorrect statements on how
Title IX is currently applied to high school and college sports.
Two of the major themes that ...
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Georgia State will add women's sand volleyball for the 2013 spring season. Predictably, the school's athletic director, Cheryl Levick, cited
Title IX compliance — specifically to balance gender proportionality numbers with football — as the key reason. The addition of this sport brings with it an estimated ...
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In our last post, we clipped an editorial by Ned Cantwell, who correctly made the point that if gender quotas were applied to booster clubs, you would say goodbye to bake sales, carwashes and other fundraisers for your child’s sports teams. After receiving criticism for his column, Ned fired back. The following snippet clarifies not only what he said but ...
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For years now, we've been warning our readers about how gender quota supporters want to extend their control to high school booster clubs. While some schools are simply being targeted for costly federal investigations, for schools in New Mexico, it's already the law. Here's a passage from a story that ran earlier this week at PNTOnline.com:
[W]hat the New ...
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In today's edition of the Daily Trojan, American Sports Council President Leo Kocher was asked what was preventing the University of South California from adding new men's sports to their athletic department:
In response to the university’s recent addition of two women’s sports, some have expressed discontent with the constraints placed upon the ...
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According to yesterday's edition of its student newspaper, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights has initiated a
Title IX review at Butler University.
From the Butler Collegian:
Butler University is facing pressure and a potential investigation from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
The OCR is “cond...
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Last week, Santa Clara University announced that it had agreed to build an on campus softball field as part of a settlement into a
Title IX investigation that had been initiated by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR). When I read the story, I couldn't help but recall another story we had taken note of in March 2010 when the same ...
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When anyone asks me what our adversaries are like in the
Title IX reform debate, I always tell them to take a close look at the
Title IX Blog. The critical difference there: the authors don't allow any outsiders to leave comments on their blog posts. It's almost as if they're afraid of free and open debate about the law and the damage it's doing at colleges ...
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It's a busy first day for the newly-formed American Sports Council. Again, from our new website:
The American Sports Council (ASC) filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) today, alleging that the use of gender quotas to enforce
Title IX in high school athletic programs is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause. ...
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As part of today's activities around the law suit filed by the American Sports Council against the Department of Education concerning
Title IX and high school sports, our legal partners at the Pacific Legal Foundation produced a video explaining the suit.
To view the Pacific Legal Foundation's own press release on the filing of the suit, click here.
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