While educational institutions should serve as bastions of wisdom and incubators of enlightenment, anyone who has worked as a faculty or staff member knows that they often fall far short of the ideal. In fact, sometimes, school settings are the worst at perpetuating long-standing problems such as discrimination on the basis of sex. Federal law …

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The scheme of regulations supporting Title IX requires all schools that receive federal funding to have at least one employee who is designated to serve as the Title IX Coordinator for that school. However many people are unclear about what the Coordinator is supposed to do and what to expect from the Coordinator. A complainant …

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Title IX protects students, faculty, staff, and professors in most educational institutions from discrimination based on sex. As part of the regime, Title IX provisions prohibit institutions from retaliating against employees who file a claim or participate in the Title IX investigation. Losing a job is one of the most extreme forms of retaliation, although …

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While Title IX regulations have made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy and related conditions since 1975, educational institutions still need reminders about their responsibilities under the law. That is the basic premise behind a fact source issued by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on pregnancy-related discrimination.   This guidance …

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