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Title IX Blog

News, legal developments, commentary, and scholarship about Title IX, the federal statute prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded schools.
By Erin Buzuvis, Sudha Setty, and Kristine Newhall

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Last Entry: July 16, 2010 at 08:42:00

Under pressure, FHSAA calls emergency meeting

Posted on June 24, 2009
Realizing what many before them have not, the Florida High School Athletic Association has decided that doling out legal fees might run counter to efforts to save money--exactly what their plan to reduce the number of athletic contests was supposed to do...

Happy Birthday, Title IX!

Posted on June 23, 2009
37 years and counting.

White House Celebrates Title IX Anniversary

Posted on June 23, 2009
President Obama will commemorate the 37th anniversary of Title IX today during his press conference from the Rose Garden. Also (in another example of the interface between Title IX and Facebook) the White House is hosting an online discussion this afternoon (2:30 EST) to honor the anniversary...

Training Rules screening in Minneapolis

Posted on June 23, 2009
Training Rules, the documentary about Rene Portland's anti-lesbian policies and the case brought against her and Penn State by former Lion Jennifer Harris, is screening tomorrow evening (Wednesday, June 24) at 7pm at the Walker Art Center. The movie, which will be followed by Football Under Cover, a documentary about Iranian women's soccer, is part of the Walker's Queer Takes film series...

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More coverage of Florida case

Posted on June 20, 2009
This site has an interview with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, several student-athletes, and a parent about the lawsuit and injunction Florida Parents for Athletic Equity have filed against the Florida High School Athletic Association which has a policy that will cut athletic contests for all students athletes except football players and cheerleaders...

Settlement Reached in UC Davis Case

Posted on June 19, 2009
In 2007, three female students who played club sports at the University of California at Davis sued the university to challenge the lack of varsity athletic opportunities for women. They argued that Davis failed to satisfy any of the three alternative prongs for measuring compliance in this regard...

Florida case and thoughts on cheerleading

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Florida Parents for Athletic Equity have indeed filed a lawsuit against the Florida High School Athletic Association as they promised they would if FHSAA did not make moves toward ensuring equitable competitive opportunities.This case and the Quinnipiac University case which is now in mediation have brought up, seemingly on the side but maybe not, the issue of competitive cheerleading...

Facebooking a discrimination case

Posted on June 17, 2009
Florida Parents for Athletic Equity will be following through on their decision to file a lawsuit against the Florida High School Athletic Association over the latter's policy to reduce the number of athletic contests for all teams except football.And they will also be updating the happenings in the case on Facebook...

Court Sides With School District in Cyber-Harassment Case

Posted on June 16, 2009
Recently a federal district court in New York dismissed a case against the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free School District on grounds that the plaintiff's allegation that she had been sexually harassed by another student via email did not constitute violation of Title IX or other law...

The not-so-far-reaching effects of equity in sports

Posted on June 15, 2009
Frequently overlooked when we make statements such as "girls have benefited from Title IX" or "the growth of high school girls in sports has been X-fold since the passage of Title IX" is the fact that "girls" is not a nice, neat category. "Girls" is actually quite complex...

Never mind

Posted on June 13, 2009
The negotiations between the Florida High School Athletic Association and Florida Parents for Athletic Equity, which is being represented by Nancy Hogshead-Makar, have apparently broken down because the announcement that was expected Friday never happened...

Mediation in QU case

Posted on June 12, 2009
Judge Stefan Underhill, who ordered the injunction on the Quinnipiac Title IX/volleyball case recently, has sent the case to a magistrate judge for mediation talks. No word here on what next week's talks will address, but both sides made the request to the district court...

Potential resolution in Florida interscholastic athletics

Posted on June 11, 2009
After being given a 10-day window to come up with an equitable solution to cutting sports contests, the Florida High School Athletic Association will announce two options for schools. In April FHSAA said it would cut all varsity contests by 20 percent--except football...

Lawsuit Filed Against Canton School District

Posted on June 11, 2009
Students and parents in Canton, Illinois, have sued School District No. 66 over alleged Title IX violations. Their complaint maintains that the district discriminates against girls' athletics in the scheduling practice times and times, and by providing equipment -- like sound systems -- and facilities -- such as locker rooms -- that are inferior to those provided for boys' athletics...

Softball for Weatherford?

Posted on June 10, 2009
New trustees are in place at Weatherford College in Texas and all are going forth with the agreement with OCR that states that the college will survey students and add a women's team if results deem it necessary. This article, though not stating if and when a survey will occur, does mention that on the agenda for an upcoming trustees' meeting is the addition of women's softball...

Cutting costs without cutting sports

Posted on June 09, 2009
In the wake of the Quinnipiac case, in which it seemed that the university somewhat spitefully cut men's track and field when it was told it had to retain women's volleyball, at least temporarily, in order to work out some Title IX issues, it is a good time to note that budgets cuts do not have to equal cutting teams...

Florida cutting high school contests

Posted on June 06, 2009
In a cost-reducing effort, the Florida High School Athletic Association came up with and initially approved a plan to cut back the number of games teams play during a season; 20 percent across the board. Except for football.You would be right if you too thought that wasn't actually going to fly...

Darien schools have some issues

Posted on June 04, 2009
Findings from the second (out of three) investigation in three years at the high school in Darien, Connecticut have found inequities that affect four girl's sports. Also revealed was that the three complaints have been filed by the same party whose identity was not made known...

Cheerleading one's way to compliance

Posted on May 31, 2009
A short but somewhat informative article about the issues surrounding competitive cheerleading and its potential to resolve some schools' Title IX issues around opportunities. Appropriate given the recent attempt by Quinnipiac to earn compliance by cutting a more traditional sport (volleyball) and add cheerleading...

Volleyball Reinstated at QU, Men's Track Eliminated

Posted on May 27, 2009
After being temporarily enjoined from cutting the women's volleyball program, Quinnipiac University has decided to permanently reinstate the team. This move will likely result in a settlement of the Title IX lawsuit against the university, according to the volleyball team's lawyers from the ACLU of Connecticut...

Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball

Posted on May 26, 2009
The topic of women and baseball is one frequently mentioned on this blog; just recently we posted about the Indiana teenager whose lawsuit integrated high school baseball in her state. There's also been much buzz lately about the International Baseball Federation's campaign to make women's baseball an Olympic sport (see, e...

Low priority setting for gymnastics?

Posted on May 24, 2009
A federal complaint has been filed alleging that the Rapid City School District in Iowa is violating Title IX by treating the gymnastics team as a low priority. The complaint cites the lower salaries received by gymnastics coaches as well as the lack of adequate locker rooms and practice space.

Judge Grants Injunction to Save Qunnipiac Volleyball

Posted on May 23, 2009
Quinnipiac University women's volleyball will remain a varsity sport, for another season anyway, after federal district court judge Stephan Underhill granted the preliminary injunction the team was seeking to stave off the university's effort to terminate the sport for budgetary reasons...

Texas School District Under Investigation

Posted on May 22, 2009
The Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas is currently being investigated by the Office for Civil Rights, which received allegations that that district has discriminated against female athletes by offering fewer opportunities and by providing girls teams with inferior facilities, specifically with regards to softball...

School District Settles Lesbian Harassment Case

Posted on May 21, 2009
The Vallejo City Unified School District in California will pay a former student, Rochelle Hamilton, $25,000 in a settlement to keep her from filing a lawsuit over anti-gay harassment she alleges to have experienced at the hands of faculty and staff during her sophomore year at Jesse Bethel High School...

Indiana State suspends tennis

Posted on May 20, 2009
Cut has become the latest dirty word in intercollegiate athletics. Perhaps that is why Indiana State University has "indefinitely suspended" men's and women's tennis. Budgetary issues was the reason behind the suspension of the two teams which were chosen because they would have the minimum amount of impact on student-athletes and coaches...

Indiana Girls May Try Out for Baseball

Posted on May 19, 2009
Earlier this month, the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted unanimously to make permanent its executive board's emergency ruling (see also here) issued in February that would allow girls to try out for baseball, even if they attend schools that offer opportunities in softball...

Nicholls State cuts women's golf

Posted on May 18, 2009
Down in Louisiana where state budget issues are forcing cuts in state institutions (familiar story by now) Nicholls State has dropped its women's golf team. The school is now down to 14 teams, the minimum number it can field and still be eligible for DI status...

Ruling expected this week

Posted on May 18, 2009
According to this snippet from USA Today, Judge Stefan Underhill will rule some time this week in the Quinnipiac University volleyball case. Underhill will decide whether to grant an injunction that would prevent the school from cutting the team until the Title IX issues have been resolved in court...

Waiting game for QU volleyball

Posted on May 15, 2009
Arguments ended yesterday in the case against Quinnipiac University. The volleyball players will wait now to see if Judge Stefan Underhill will grant the injunction that would keep their team alive while litigation over Title IX compliance goes forward...

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