Believe it or not, a lot of districts did not even have the appearance of compliance with the law before the MeToo movement.  Most (to all) have done very little even since then, but have adopted some kind of board policies which they now publish online (even if they never, EVER drawn anyone’s attention to them).  You will need to know Title IX well, and read and annotate all existing policies in your district before you come forward with your request for implementation.

District leadership will delay, distract, and contain you, so you need to be ready.  When you get here, reach out to us for help! You need to focus your pointed critiques in two ways: How are their existing board policies out of compliance with Title IX, AND how existing practices are out of compliance with their own policies.

After reading the ones my district had kept hidden from us, I got clear on what my district’s policies stated by answering the questions you see here. Further communications with my district made it very clear to me that they had not even read their own policies!

The main legal consideration ALL schools across the nation must honor is this—There MUST be a Title IX Coordinator who is well known to everyone in the community, and everyone must know this person’s name, and how to make a report directly to them.

Many districts attempt to circumvent this, most basic aspect of the law, by placing site based administrators in the role of responding to sexual harassment/violence reprots. This is NOT legal. ALL reports MUST go to the Title IX Coordinator.

In California, the California School Board Association has adopted model policies which many if not most of the districts in our state have also adopted. These policies go MUCH further, and require that the Title IX Coordinator be free of a conflict of interest, that there are highly specific supportive measures in place for the victims once a report is made, and they also spell out the exacting nature of what “due process” should look like as well.