> Title IX legislation, passed in 1972, says that no one should be excluded on the basis of gender from participation in any education program receiving federal financial assistance. But private institutions have an exemption that allows them to use gender as a factor in admissions.
I was interested to see this legal explanation because I had read in a prior HN thread that schools could choose to be single-sex, but once they decided to admit both sexes they were forbidden from discriminating. The HN comment linked to an authoritative-looking website (Dept of Education?), but this seems to pretty clearly indicate that private schools are exempt.
EDIT:
Here's a link to a page on the Dept of Education's Office of Civil Rights website, which gives the impression that schools that receive federal funding (which is basically all of them) cannot discriminate on the basis of sex or gender in admissions. It mentions no exception for private institutions. [1]
But this other page on the same website shows the exemption for private institutions. Very strange that the first page, which has a section on the "scope of Title IX" would not mention that this rule does not apply to the thousands of private universities and colleges. [2]
I was interested to see this legal explanation because I had read in a prior HN thread that schools could choose to be single-sex, but once they decided to admit both sexes they were forbidden from discriminating. The HN comment linked to an authoritative-looking website (Dept of Education?), but this seems to pretty clearly indicate that private schools are exempt.
EDIT:
Here's a link to a page on the Dept of Education's Office of Civil Rights website, which gives the impression that schools that receive federal funding (which is basically all of them) cannot discriminate on the basis of sex or gender in admissions. It mentions no exception for private institutions. [1]
But this other page on the same website shows the exemption for private institutions. Very strange that the first page, which has a section on the "scope of Title IX" would not mention that this rule does not apply to the thousands of private universities and colleges. [2]
1: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.html
2: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-rel-exemp...