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Title IX's 35th Anniversary

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June 25, 2007

This past Saturday marked the 35th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark 1972 law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. Emily Martin, the deputy director of the Women's Rights Project, marked the anniversary in HuffingtonPost.com by blogging about sex-segregated schools:

Despite Title IX's statement that no one may be excluded from any educational activity based on sex, the new regulations permit coeducational schools such exclusion in a wide variety of circumstances. Because of these amendments, on the 35th anniversary of Title IX, hundreds of public schools across the country are now planning and instituting sex-segregated programs for the first time in memory.

You can read the full article on HuffingtonPost.com, and learn more about Title IX and sex-segregated schools at www.aclu.org/titleix.

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