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Title IX Court Decisions Make It Harder for Biden to Rewrite Rules

  • Flood of Title IX lawsuits have challenged student sanctions
  • Biden rewriting DeVos rule that added safeguards for accused
Betsy DeVos

Betsy DeVos

Photographer: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Imaes

A string of recent court decisions have accepted sex-based discrimination claims by male students after their schools sanctioned them for harassment or assault, potentially complicating plans for a complete overhaul of former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s campus sexual misconduct regulations.

President Joe Biden plans to rewrite the DeVos rule governing Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bars gender-based discrimination at schools. The law has been at the center of debates over schools’ response to sexual harassment—mostly against women—on campus.