In a blog post the other day, I asked whether Dallas ISD's fifth-grade field trip to see Red Tails in which no girls were invited violated Title IX, a federal law that prohibits schools receiving federal funds from gender-based discrimination in educational programs.
I talked to a University of Pittsburgh law professor who is an expert in the federal law. Here's what I wrote inmy story today:
A law professor and gender-equity expert said the district appears to have violated Title 9, a federal law that prohibits schools receiving federal funds from gender-based discrimination in educational programs."This strikes me as unquestionably a Title 9 violation," said Debbie Brake, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who has written extensively about the 40-year-old law. "What if they took all the white kids and said there were not enough seats for everyone? To think it's OK to