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If you haven’t read the recent press releases from the Department of Education reflecting their summer enforcement focus around Title IX, below we’ll dive into what happened this month. Penn’s agreement with the Office for...more
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban transgender high school and college athletes from participating on female sports teams at their schools. After initially declining to review this issue in 2023 and...more
Many K-12 and institutes of higher education are concerned about the potential threat to their federal funding given recent changes to the way the government is interpreting existing federal law to achieve certain policy...more
On Jan. 9, 2025, the Eastern District of Kentucky held in State of Tennessee, et al. v. Miguel Cardona, et al. that the U.S. Department of Education’s 2024 Final Rule implementing Title IX is “unlawful.” This court decision...more
Last year was a turbulent one for Title IX, and although we are just a few days into 2025, this turbulence has persisted into the new year. Yesterday, January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling that...more
Schools throughout the country are preparing to implement the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights’ (“OCR”) long-awaited final 2024 Title IX regulations. These new regulations, which replace the 2020...more
As you recover from another whirlwind of a school year, we hope you can take some time to relax and enjoy your summer break. The next few months will be the perfect time to – at your leisure – catch up on this past year’s...more
At least 22 states are suing the Biden administration over new Title IX rules set to take effect this summer. The lawsuits claim that the U.S. Department of Education’s new rules – which were released last month and include...more
On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released its unofficial copy of the final Title IX regulations, a summary of the major final provisions, and a resource for drafting...more
On April 19, 2024, the Biden Administration released its long-awaited overhaul of the Title IX regulations governing investigations of alleged sexual misconduct and sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs....more
Earlier this month, the United States Department of Education (“DOE” or “Department”) announced that it plans to issue the much-anticipated Title IX regulations in March 2024 according to the latest regulatory...more
The Department of Education (DOE) is expected to issue two major amendments to Title IX regulations next month that could cause headaches for educational institutions with classes already in full swing. One rule will address...more
In a decision that should put the nation’s private and independent school community on notice, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett for the District of Maryland recently ruled that a school’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt...more
On June 23, the Department of Education issued a proposed rulemaking that would alter obligations to address sex discrimination that affects employees and students, including sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, and...more
The U.S. Department of Education has released newly proposed Title IX regulations. What do they say, and how might your policies and procedures change to comply? Our K-12 Title IX team is hard at work parsing through the...more
On June 23, 2022, the Department of Education issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would alter obligations to address sex discrimination that affects employees and students, including sexual harassment,...more
In August 2020, the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) requirements went into effect for responding to sexual harassment in the programs and activities of elementary and secondary schools receiving ED funds. This followed...more
On July 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights posted a new, 67-page Q&A document on the current Title IX regulations. Join members of Bricker & Eckler's education team to review the...more
[Warning: This article does not reference viruses, vaccines, or mask-wearing.] The education world is in a state of flux, legally speaking. Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court will further opine on the extent to which the...more
On April 6, 2020, the Department of Education (“Department”) announced that it will re-examine the Trump Administration’s 2020 amendments to the Title IX regulations (the “Regulations”). The Department’s announcement follows...more
On March 8, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order indicating it is the policy of the Biden administration “that all students should be guaranteed an educational environment free of from discrimination on the basis...more
After months of speculation as to how a new administration may enforce Title IX, newly inaugurated President Biden wasted no time in addressing the matter. On his first day in office, he issued seventeen executive orders,...more
A federal court in Virginia ruled in favor a transgender teenager who wanted to use the boys’ bathroom at his former school, finding that the local school district violated his constitutional rights when it prescribed which...more
On February 22, 2017, one day before briefs were submitted to the Supreme Court in a case involving a transgender student in Pennsylvania, the Trump Administration, through the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department...more