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Education Amendments of 1972; 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.
When Title IX was passed in 1972, 42 percent of the students enrolled in American colleges were female. [5] The purpose of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 was to update Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned several forms of discrimination in employment, but did not address or mention discrimination in education.
Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 Pub. L. 90–576: 1969 Emergency Insured Student Loan Act of 1969 1970 Drug Abuse Education Act of 1970 1972 Education Amendments of 1972: Amended education law to prohibit sex-based discrimination through Title IX. Reauthorized and amended various education laws. Pub. L. 92–318: 1973 (No short title)
The Education Amendments of 1972 made several changes to the American education system, including the implementation of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools that receive federal funding. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare developed a detailed list of regulations that school systems were required ...
March 22, 1972: Approved an amendment to the Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women, and submitted it to the state legislatures for ratification This amendment, commonly known as the Equal Rights Amendment , was later rendered inoperative, as it was not ratified within the seven–year time frame set by Congress (nor the ...
In 1972, Title IX was enacted to fill this gap and prohibit discrimination in all federally funded education programs. Title IX, or the Education Amendments of 1972 was later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act following Mink's death in 2002. [164]
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Bernice Resnick Sandler (March 3, 1928 – January 5, 2019) was an American women's rights activist. She is best known for being instrumental in the creation of Title IX, a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, in conjunction with representatives Edith Green and Patsy Mink and Senator Birch Bayh in the 1970s.