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After a flurry of challenges to the new 2024 Title IX Rules, a district court in Kentucky recently vacated the 2024 Rules nationwide. This means the 2020 Title IX Rules are back in effect across the country. The new administration is unlikely to appeal the decision, so schools will be implementing the 2020 Rules going forward.
Thompson & Horton is offering Take One: The 2020 Title IX Rules virtual training for K-12 Title IX personnel. Join us for an engaging and practical course covering all required training for your Title IX team under the 2020 rules.
Informal resolution is an underutilized superpower in your school’s Title IX repertoire, poised to confront allegations of sex discrimination with precision and care. Informal resolution can be faster, less stressful, and more student-centered than the formal Title IX grievance procedures—and it’s available whether your state is under the 2020 or the 2024 rules.
Informal resolution encompasses a broad spectrum of conflict resolution strategies, including, for instance, facilitated dialogue, facilitated negotiation or exchange of offers of resolution, mediation, and restorative or transformative justice techniques.
Title IX training is critical regardless of whether your institution is located in a state where courts have entered injunctions blocking the 2024 Title IX Rules. Thompson & Horton has you covered with engaging and practical courses that satisfy requirements under the 2024 Rules and the 2020 Rules and highlight case management fundamentals. Even in jurisdictions without an injunction, the 2020 Rules will continue to apply to all incidents that occurred prior to August 1, 2024.
Twenty-six states are suing in seven different courts to stop the implementation of the new Title IX rules. Some governors and other state officials have directed schools not to implement the new federal rules, including the Texas Education Agency in a June 13 letter to Texas public schools that they should continue complying with the 2020 Title IX rules if they are seeking to receive grant funds from the TEA.
Thompson & Horton is offering a complimentary webinar series for 2024: “T&H TacTIXs: 2024 Title IX Webinar Series.” Join our Title IX team on the last Wednesday of each month for an essential update on critical Title IX tactics your school, college, or university needs to know to get—and stay—compliant in 2024.
Our first webinar, on January 31, 2024, will be called “A Cruel Summer of Title IX Is Coming: Are You Ready For It?” Register now even if you cannot attend the first webinar because spots are limited! Registration for the series will get you access to all of the monthly webinars for the year. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get the T&H checklist for what you need to do this Spring to prepare for an implementation summer in 2024.
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