Sexual assault mandates cause national contoversy
In April 2011, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), a part of the U.S. Department of Education, released an official letter to all schools that receive public funding, outlining a list of standards for...
View ArticleNew Sexual Harassment Rules Treaten Free Speech (VIDEO)
Yesterday, I joined Greg Lukianoff, president of FIRE and Elizabeth Nolan Brown, editor of Blisstree.com to discuss the Department of Education’s troubling new policies on sexual harassment. The...
View ArticleOPINION: Feds Go Way Too Far With New Sexual Harrasment Guidelines
Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars argues the broad new definition of sexual harassment adopted by the Department of Education poses a threat to free speech at campuses across the...
View ArticleControversy Over Fed’s New Sexual Harassment Rules Rages On
The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has responded to widespread criticism that its nationwide blueprint for sexual harassment reform has received. The blueprint – which was...
View ArticleFeds Investigate USC’s Alleged Failure to Respond to Rape
The University of Southern California has become the latest university to come under the scrutiny of the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). A group of thirteen students filed an...
View Article‘Liberal discipline policies’ are making schools dangerous
The warning of many conservatives has come to fruition: The dismissal of “traditional” methods of school discipline like suspensions in favor of “progressive” measures — with fancy names like...
View ArticleFormer Ed. Dept. lawyer warns Office for Civil Rights about liability re: 1st...
Former Department of Education Office for Civil Rights attorney Hans Bader says the department should be careful when it comes to “enforcing the civil-rights laws in a way that violate the First...
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