Content Details
ED480939 - Open to All: Title IX at 30
- Category
- Executive Agency Publications
- Collection
- Education Reports from ERIC
- SuDoc Class Number
- ED 1.615:
- Date Issued
- February 1, 2003
- Source Institution
- Department of Education, Washington, DC. Office of the Secretary;
- Publication Type
- Reports - Research
- Subject
- Affirmative Action, Athletics, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Equal Facilities, Gender Issues, Government Publications, Government Role, Higher Education, Sex Fairness, Womens Athletics
- Identifiers
- Title IX Education Amendments 1972
- Abstract
- This document is a report to the secretary of education on the findings of the Secretary's Commission on Opportunities in Athletics. The Commission was charged with examining Title IX. Starting in June 2002, the 15-member commission collected information, analyzed issues, and obtained broad public input directed at improving the application of current federal standards for measuring equal opportunity for men and women and boys and girls to participate in athletics under Title IX. The Commission found strong and broad support for the original intent of Title IX, along with a great deal of debate over how the law should be enforced. The Commission also found a great deal of confusion about Title IX and a lack of clarity in guidance from the Office for Civil Rights in regard to enforcement. In response, the commission adopted 23 key recommendations, which are presented in this report. The recommendations are grouped into four themes: (1) commitment; (2) clarity; (3) fairness; and (4) enforcement. Appended are: a glossary, a list of references, the Commission charter, agendas of Commission meetings; a roster of Commission members and staff; and the voting records of the Commission members. Included is a CD-ROM version of the report.