Law and Ethics

Question 1

Law & Ethics - Title IX Background

Answer 1

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal funding.

Question 2

Law & Ethics - Title IX Obligations

Answer 2

• recruitment, admissions, and counseling
• financial assistance
• athletics
• sex-based harassment
• treatment of pregnant or parenting students
• discipline
• single-sex education
• employment

Question 3

Law & Ethics - FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

Answer 3

• Parents or eligible students have the right to…
  
  • review student’s educational records maintained by school
  • request record correction which they believe to be inaccurate or misleading, id school declines, they have a right to amend such decision
  • must have written permission to release information from a student’s education record (with exceptions)
• schools may disclose, without consent, student’s directory information, but must give parents or eligible student opportunity to request that that information not be disclosed.

Question 4

Law & Ethics - In Loco Parentis

Answer 4

• “in the place of parent”
• the duty to act like the parent when protecting students from foreseeable harm