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Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
Created a program to provide matching endowment grants for colleges eligible under the Challenge Grant Program. Pub. L. 98–95: 1983 Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments of 1983 Pub. L. 98–199: 1983 (No short title) Pub. L. 98–211: 1984 (No short title) Increased funding for grants under Title III of the Higher Education Act. Pub. L ...
Congress kept the core provision of Title IX very brief, only one sentence long. The interpretation and implementation of Title IX was left to the executive, whom Congress expressly "authorized and directed to effectuate the [statute] by issuing rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability which shall be consistent with achievement of ...
The Ninth Amendment became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791, upon ratification by three-fourths of the states. The final form of the amendment ratified by the states is as follows: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. [13]
What became the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed through Congress within weeks of the Supreme Court's decision, and was ratified by the states within months. [8] As such, Senator Bayh is the only person since the Founding Fathers to have drafted more than one amendment to the United States Constitution. [11]
That year, Congress debated and passed the grandly named Education Amendments of 1972. In that law was Title IX, legislation that mandated boys and girls, young men and young women have equal ...
The signing of the United States Constitution occurred on September 17, 1787, when 39 delegates endorsed the constitution created during the convention. In addition to signatures, this closing endorsement, the Constitution's eschatocol , included a brief declaration that the delegates' work has been successfully completed and that those whose ...
The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, passed Congress last week. The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate approved the legislation with a strong bipartisan majority of 87 to 13 while the ...