Title IX aided in changing face of schools

 
By Staff Reports
Published: June 23, 2007

Today marks the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark regulation that prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.

Title IX grew out of the women's rights movement, which called for the government to address the education gap between males and females. Legislators took up the issue in 1971, and President Nixon signed Title IX into law on J...


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