In FY 2016, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) promoted equity and excellence in education through conducting investigations and monitoring schools under resolution agreements, promoting greater understanding of how OCR interprets and enforces civil rights laws through the release of policy guidance, providing technical assistance and outreach to…

For decades, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has enforced civil rights in our nation's preschool through 12th grade (P-12) and post-secondary schools, which now serve almost 80 million students annually. In Fiscal Year 2015, the OCR promoted excellence in education through conducting investigations and monitoring schools under resolution…

For nearly five decades, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has stood as a guardian of civil rights in educational institutions nationwide. This office takes very seriously the charge to remove barriers to students' full participation in every facet of educational life. As the contents of this report illustrate, OCR…

School-Parent Compacts are a component of school-level parental involvement policies, and must be developed by the school, teacher, and parents as a description of how parents, the entire school staff, and students themselves will work together for improved student academic achievement. This District of Columbia Public Schools School Year…

The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 was premised upon a fundamental but doubtful analogy between race discrimination and age discrimination. The law is thus inconsistent, confusing, divisive, and poses practical problems regarding interpretation, enforcement, and resource allocation. (Author/GC)

Examines the Age Discrimination Act of 1978 and the conflict between the criteria of social choice that decision makers wish to employ to end the moral and legal constraints that nondiscrimination laws seek to impose on such criteria. Available from the Yale Jaw Journal, 401A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06820. (Author/IRT)

Dilemmas inherent in new regulations attempting to end age discrimination in federally supported agencies or activities are examined in this article. Recommendations for clarifying and increasing the fairness of such antidiscrimination legislation are offered. (GC)

This document addresses nondiscrimination on the basis of age in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. It consists of the amendments made in the notice of Final Regulations published in the Federal Register on November 13, 2000. Its purpose is to set out the Department of Education's rules for implementing the Age…

The hearings recorded here were convened in order to examine legislation proposed in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Grove City College v. Bell, which was considered to narrow significantly the scope of coverage of Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments, Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation…

This legislative amendment affects Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It provides that any program within an organization receiving federal financial assistance brings the entire organization or institution…

These instructional materials focus on federal laws and executive orders that prohibit sex discrimination in employment and education. The materials consist of the following: (1) a list of some of the legislation covered; (2) a list of relevant materials and resources; (3) a list of 14 instructional activities, each described by one or a few…

Title IX, the only federal law intended to prohibit all aspects of sex discrimination in education, mandated that, if an institution received funds from the federal government, it could not discriminate in any of its activities. The Grove City v. Bell decision changed the focus of this law. Currently, an organization that receives federal funds in…

The statements presented by numerous individuals at the hearing are recorded in this volume. Specific examples of discrimination against older adults in such Federally-assisted programs as the food stamp program, Medicaid, the community mental health centers program, the vocational rehabilitation program, the social services program under Title XX…

This outline of the standards governing civil rights in vocational education programs contains information on the general provisions of civil rights legislation as it applies to education as well as standards pertaining to the establishment of vocational education programs and facilities; recruitment and admission; treatment of students in…

The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 is summarized, and issues concerning the adult woman and older students on campus are discussed. The act will be helpful in eliminating some of the inequities older women (and men) may face in educational institutions. The act does not define "age" to limit coverage; it simply prohibits discrimination…