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Twenty-five years after Congress passed Title IX as part of the Education Amendments Act, 24 of the 28 agencies affected by the requirements have no regulations for implementing...
...next month, the Justice Department will work with other federal agencies that fund educational programs to create a uniform set of regulations to implement Title IX, which stipulates that men and women have equal opportunities in educational programs that receive federal funds...
...Title IX has become strongly associated with higher education and college athletics in the wake of a 1993 lawsuit against the Brown University volleyball program. The Department of Education--under the jurisdiction of which Harvard and virtually all other universities fall--is one of the four departments with regulations...
...York Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups oppose the Young Women's Leadership School because it discriminates against boys; young men who deserve the same opportunities as these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...
Despite Milgrom-Elcott's suggestion that discrimination favouring women should be exempt from Title IX challenges, the spirit of Constitution is "equal justice under law." Both the uniformed girls from the Young Women's Leadership School and male cadets at the Virginia Military Academy are held under the same...