Today, Vice President Biden announced that the Administration has issued a Dear Colleague letter that withdraws a 2005 interpretation of Title IX policy.
Enacted in 1972, Title IX mandates that any educational institution receiving federal funding for programs and activities cannot discriminate on the basis of sex. The 2005 policy issued compliance standards that were widely criticized for being inadequate and inconsistent with Title IX’s nondiscrimination goals. Today’s announcement reverses this interpretation and returns to a more thorough test for assessing compliance with Title IX.
See the press release and the Dear Colleague letter.