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Subject: Re: Title IX gathers momentum
Author: edequity@tristram.edc.org at internet
Date: 3/30/98 11:03 AM
I don't know what it means in this particular case, but the federal
government does give out money to states for the purpose of staffing
gender equity offices and providing information on gender equity
compliance. This funding has been emaciated in the last few years, but
that might be what the newspaper meant. The claims that schools will be
subject to large punitive damage awards is LUDICROUS. A very high
standard of malicious intent by the school itself would be required.
Kristen Galles, Equity Legal <kgalles@erols.com>
Sue Sattel wrote:
>
> In Gebser vs. Lago Vista ISD, currently being argued before the
> Supreme Court, the paper today reports that Wallace Jefferson,
> arguing for the school district argued that the districts would
> be exposed to limitless punitive damages for unauthorized criminal
> acts of teachers - and then our paper goes on to say "Largo Vista,
> with a budget of $1.6 million, received $120,000 in Title IX money in 1992
> when the student-teacher affair took place. What is Title IX money?
> Does anyone know? Do they mean even the 1 cent of federal dollars
> that a school district receives which then requires their adherence
> to Title IX? sue.sattel@inet.state.mn.us
>
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> Subject: Title IX gathers momentum
> Author: edequity@tristram.edc.org at internet
> Date: 3/19/98 7:19 PM
>
> Thanks, Robert; The article you refer to is biased as all get out, but
> the general information is accurate. Let's be clear: I support
> affirmative action for women, as wellas for minorities, because white
> men have always had it; whenever there are scarce resources, there will
> be competition for them, and it is not fair for men to get the first
> shot at all the good jobs. We have been asking the OCR (headed by Norma
> Cantu) for years to begin taking federal funds away from noncomplying
> schools and send continued noncompliance cases to the Department of
> Justice. And yes, it's high time Title IX was used for more than
> sports; and just to be clear, I do indeed feel men should head into the
> domestic arts as fast as possible. Women who are admitted into better
> paying jobs are not going to be weeping over the loss of semislave jobs
> to men. Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates <lpurring@earthlink.net>
>
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> Robert Weverka wrote:
> >
> > Dear Linda,
> >
> > I thought you might be interested in this.
> > http://www.iwf.org/article.cfm?ID=159&TO=0
> > It is an anti-Title IX article, so you might want to skip the editorializing
> > that the author does, but it also has some interesting information about the
> > Clinton Administration's efforts to broaden the application of Title IX
beyond
> > sports in our colleges.
> > The author claims that the gender equity enforcement in sports
scholarships
> > may be opened up to include efforts by the justice dept. to enforce gender
> > equity accross the board in all parts of education.
> >
> > Just a heads up,
> > Please let me know if you find anything further on this topic.
> >
> > -Robert Weverka <weverka@optivision.com>