Enforcing Title IX : a report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

This report reassesses for the Department of Education (ED) the enforcement effort of Title IX by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and offers recommendations. OCR is criticized for being very slow to issue important guidelines, process complaints, conduct compliance reviews, and enforce the law. Al...

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Corporate Author:	United States Commission on Civil Rights (Author)
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Washington, District of Columbia] : [United States Commission on Civil Rights], [1980]
Series:	Women and the law. Business and legal aspects of sports and entertainment. Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:	United States. > Education Amendments of 1972. > Title IX. Sex discrimination in sports > Law and legislation > United States. Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > United States. Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > United States. Federal aid to education > United States. Electronic books.
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Summary:	This report reassesses for the Department of Education (ED) the enforcement effort of Title IX by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and offers recommendations. OCR is criticized for being very slow to issue important guidelines, process complaints, conduct compliance reviews, and enforce the law. Also OCR is charged with showing little commitment to discovering violations or to assisting institutions to prevent them. Further complaints are the inadequacy of training, guidance, and monitoring to assure that policies and procedures determined at headquarters are uniformly implemented in the regions; and the inconsistency of guidelines issued by headquarters. The report recommends that the following steps be taken immediately: (1) Improve OCR's data collection and analysis capacity. (2) Improve guidance and oversight of regional staff. (3) Implement OCR policy on employment cases. (4) Allocate staff resources necessary to complete planned compliance reviews on schedule. (5) Initiate administrative proceedings to terminate funds in all cases in which voluntary negotiations do not resolve all violations within the specified time limit. (6) Increase cooperation with the Department of Justice (DOJ). (7) Increase Title IX technical assistance and public information efforts.
Item Description:	"October 1980."
Physical Description:	1 online resource (v, 78 pages).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.