After giving educational institutions two weeks to comply with the Department of Education’s Dear Colleague Letter, on February 28, the Office of Civil Rights issued FAQs About Racial Preferences and Stereotypes Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
On February 13, 2025, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law two immigration-related bills aimed at assisting enforcement of President Trump’s immigration policies.
On February 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a “Dear Colleague” Letter (DCL) and emailed it to K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions around the country.
The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal, state, and local matters, as well as Littler’s published in-depth analyses of the prior week.
In the latest slew of executive orders affecting educational institutions, on February 5, 2025, President Trump signed an order titled, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”
On January 9, 2025, the Biden administration’s Title IX Final Rule was struck down by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, which declared the regulations unconstitutional for all schools nationwide.
11th Circuit holds Title IX does not provide plaintiffs with a private right of action for employment-based sex discrimination, explains that Title VII governs such claims, and clarifies scope of protected activity under Title IX.
The NLRB recently denied a graduate school’s request for review of a regional director’s finding that a petitioned-for unit of graduate policy researchers was an appropriate bargaining unit.
