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Filed under Title IX of the Federal Education Act, the suit questions whether schools would be liable for damages if a school official knew of the harassment but did little or nothing about...
Federal appeals courts have split over whetherTitle IX of the Education Amendments of 1972applies to sexual harassment by students, andseveral such cases have recently been appealed tothe Supreme Court...
...Title IX prohibits sex discrimination ineducational programs that receive federal money.In this case, the United States Court of Appealsfor the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, ruled that whilethe law obliged school districts to prevent sexualharassment by their employees, it did not makeschools liable for students' behavior...
According to guidelines offered by the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Education in 1979, schools can also meet Title IX if they offer all the sports women at the school want to play or if the school is continuously expanding athletic programs for women, Bryant said...
Brown could have chosen to satisfy Title IX in either of these two ways by simply funding more women's teams, but it insisted on fulfilling the "substantially proportionate" requirement, Bryant said...