Darcy Lees <DLees@inspire.ospi.wednet.edu>
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> From: PEGGY WEEKS[SMTP:peggy_w@nde4.nde.state.ne.us]
> Reply To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 9:20 AM
> To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Subject: Re: what constituted discrimination? -Reply -Reply
>
> Actually, in Region VII, the Office for Civil Rights has informed me
> that
> employment complaints under Title IX are usually "turned into" Title
> VII
> claims by an interagency agreement w/ EEOC. I find this problemmatic
> on
> two fronts: first, not all of our public school districts here have 15
> or
> more employees, and, second, Title VII caps awards for sexual
> harassment while Title IX does not. When I asked OCR here about these
> points, I got a "nonresponse" response. Region VII OCR did noter that
> they only turn over complaints if they are purely employemnt-related.
>
> PEGGY WEEKS <peggy_w@nde4.nde.state.ne.us>
>