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OCR eases Title IX rules on determining women's interests in campus athletics.(NEWSWATCH)(Office for Civil Rights)(Brief Article)
A new wrinkle in one of the three ways a school can show compliance with Title IX requiring gender equity in education is facing immediate opposition.
The Bush administration has offered schools a new tool to measure women's interest in sports, an eight-page model online survey that can be used to discount claims that it fails to accommodate students' interests.
Schools that fail to have a gender ratio of athletes equal to that of the student body or fail to show a continuing expansion of athletics for the underrepresented sex can turn to a third way, an interest test to get them off the hook with Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigators.
The "clarification" by the Education Department's Office means "the burden of proof is on the OCR or on students to show by a preponderance of evidence that the institution is not in compliance with part three."
"I think it's really irresponsible, and it's giving schools the easy way out," said Neena Chaudry, senior counsel at the National Women's Law Center, calling the suggested ...
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