No Change in Title IX Rules for Now

There will be no immediate change in Title IX requirements while the U.S. Dept. of Education reviews the issue. From Politico Pro: The Education Department on Tuesday outlined plans to review the DeVos-era Title IX rule, which mandates how colleges and K-12 schools must respond to reports of sexual misconduct. The policy, which has been met with fierce pushback, will stay in place as is for now.

The department is following through on President Joe Biden’s March executive order that directed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to consider rescinding the 2020 Title IX rule after launching a comprehensive review.

Suzanne B. Goldberg, acting assistant secretary for the department’s Office for Civil Rights, said in a letter that OCR plans to hold a public hearing on the rule in the coming weeks and will solicit oral and written comments. The responses will be used to supplement the more than 124,000 written comments OCR received during former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' rulemaking process.

OCR will also release new guidance for schools in the coming months to “provide additional clarity about how OCR interprets schools’ existing obligations under the 2020 amendments.” Once the review is complete, the department said it anticipates launching a notice of proposed rulemaking... 

Full story at https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2021/04/education-department-outlines-its-title-ix-review-3988043 via UCOP Daily News Clips.

As blog readers will know, for Title IX cases yours truly continues to advocate emulating the general due process features of the grievance and arbitration process already provided to union-represented UC employees.