NOW Urges Obama to 'Restore Educational Equity Protections'

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'Recently NOW joined with the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education (NCWGE) to recommend policy changes and legislative initiatives that would restore protections in academic as well as athletic programs -- which apply to both girls and boys.

The list of women's issues that the new administration will be reviewing is important because eight years of the conservative, anti-women's rights Bush administration has taken a serious toll on our rights. Of course the Supreme Court and conservative congressional leaders have done their share of undermining equal education protections, particularly those established in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

At the top of our list is immediate repeal of the "Additional Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy," which we believe discourages the inclusion of young women in college sports programs. Additionally, Department of Education regulations introduced in 2006 allow public schools to establish segregated-sex education programs without strong protections against sex discrimination, Many believe that these regulations are unconstitutional, and the coalition is asking for their withdrawal.'