Title IX

Reporting:

Reports pertaining to Title IX, should be made to the Responsible Official stated below. The Responsible Official is trained to help you find the resources you might need, to explain all reporting options, and to respond appropriately to conducts of concern. All instances of retaliation should be reported and shall be addressed in the same manner.

Kimberly Aguiar, Title IX Coordinator

aguiark@portsmouthschoolsri.org

401.683.2257 ext. 1012

Title IX Training

"To publicly post ATIXA materials on your site, copy the link to any particular item/training that you or your Title IX team members attended, and post that link(s) to your website." (https://www.atixa.org/2020-regulations-requirement-posting-of-training-materials/)

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. Title IX states “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” All federal agencies that provide grants of financial assistance are required to enforce Title IX’s nondiscrimination mandate. The U.S. Department of Education (Department) gives grants of financial assistance to schools and colleges and to certain other entities, including vocational rehabilitation programs and libraries.

In 1975, the Department’s predecessor, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, issued final regulations implementing Title IX. Recently, the Department engaged in notice-and-comment rulemaking to formally amend the Title IX regulations for the first time in over 40 years. After reviewing over 124,000 public comments, the Department issued final Title IX regulations on May 6, 2020. The new Title IX regulation, which is codified in the Code of Federal Regulations at 34 CFR Part 106, is enforced by the Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).

Title IX also prohibits retaliation for filing an OCR complaint or for advocating for a right protected by Title IX and discrimination in employment which is based on sex.

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

 

   —Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Higher Education Act of 1965