If you’ve ever tried to follow Title IX requirements using only your district’s policy manual, you know it can feel like assembling a puzzle without all the pieces. Many school district policies say something along the lines of: “The Superintendent will develop procedures that meet all the requirements of the federal regulations,” such as reasonably prompt time frames, required notices, terms “as defined by law,” equitable investigation procedures, appeal grounds, etc. That’s fine in theory — but in practice, it often means the policy itself doesn’t actually include the timelines, definitions, or required steps the Title IX regulations demand. 

Unless your district has a comprehensive and compliant set of procedures, staff end up hunting through multiple policies, administrative regulations, and old training materials, trying to figure out what to do next. Meanwhile, parents are left trying to interpret a process that isn’t clearly explained anywhere in one place. 

To help districts avoid that struggle, we created a single, comprehensive, and customizable Title IX procedure that includes all the required pieces, right in one document. 

Today, there were two important updates regarding the new requirement that every state certify that it—and every school district in it—are complying with Title VI and the Department of Education’s interpretation of Title VI as prohibiting “illegal DEI practices.”