California, other states sue over new federal rules on campus sexual harassment
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
The Trump administration is undermining laws against sex discrimination in education with new rules that narrow the definition of sexual harassment in public schools and colleges, California and other states charged in a lawsuit Thursday.
The rules announced by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for school administrators handling claims of harassment “will reverse decades of effort to end the corrosive effects of sexual harassment on equal access to education,” lawyers for 17 states and the District of Columbia said in a federal court filing in Washington, D.C.
DeVos has argued that standards for harassment cases under President Barack Obama’s administration were too broad and unfair to the accused.
“Too many cases involve students and faculty who have faced investigation and punishment simply for speaking their minds or teaching their classes,” she said in November.
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