Women’s Groups Outraged by OCR Clarification

The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education are so outraged by the Additional Clarification in Title IX’s Policy Interpretation that they created a “Save Title IX” campaign. Holly Hunter, Geena Davis, and Senator Birch Bayh are the active, honorary chairs of this campaign.

On March 17, 2005, the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Education issued an “Additional Clarification” to Title IX policy. It allows the use of surveys to determine student interests and abilities. How else do you accommodate students interests if you don’t ask them directly what they want? Surveys are a straightforward, fair and obvious solution.