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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.
Some scholars argue that, as a “single-axis law,” Title IX has disproportionately benefited white women, because it fails to address additional barriers that Black, Indigenous and other women ...
Grove City College v. Bell, 465 U.S. 555 (1984), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that Title IX, which applies only to colleges and universities that receive federal funds, could be applied to a private school that refused direct federal funding but for which a large number of students had received federally funded scholarships.
Title IX - U.S. federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs; Title IX of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - law making it easier to move civil rights cases from U.S. state courts to federal court; Title 9 of the United States Code - the role of arbitration in the United States Code
Title IX, passed in 1972, is a law that bars sex discrimination in education. The ruling Monday in Kentucky was applauded by the state’s Republican attorney general, Russell Coleman, who said ...
The new rule would clarify that Title IX law applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Reeves in his 93-page decision Monday said, “There are two sexes: male and ...
He believed that the enactment of the law would get rid of confusion and the complicated measures of Title IX. The Tower Amendment was believed to help protect the revenues of major producing sports at each college. Other colleges such as Southern Methodist University voiced similar concerns about the controlling of revenues through Title IX. [7]
The case of Cohen v.Brown University challenged cost-cutting efforts Brown University made in 1991 that targeted women's sports and women's interest in sports. Women's volleyball and gymnastics teams were demoted from university-funded varsity status to donor-funded club varsity status, along with the men's water polo and golf teams.