June 23 marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark law that bans sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal funding. To celebrate, for the next few weeks we’ll be blogging about the effect Title IX has had over the past four decades, from the many wide-reaching opportunities it has opened up for women and girls to the challenges that still remain in achieving true gender equity in schools.
Did you know that Title IX protects pregnant and parenting students from discrimination? Many people don’t realize that the law ensures that these students have the same rights to continue and finish their high school or college education as other students do.
Yet many schools continue to discriminate against pregnant and parenting students by placing them in separate, often subpar academic programs; enacting policies that treat them differently from other students with medical conditions; and preventing them from…
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