Next stop for boys' team-cutting: high schools?
The quota pressures of the federal Title IX law have resulted in the axing of hundreds of men's college sports teams, and now activists are preparing to intensify their legal campaign at the high school level, reports Jessica Gavora:
At the center of the pro-quota activists' marching orders for Congress today is something called the "High School Sports Information Collection Act." It's modeled after the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act (EADA), which for a dozen years has forced colleges and universities to annually report their athletic participation and expenses — broken down by sex — to the feds. The EADA was meant to be, and is, a one-stop-shopping list for trial lawyers and activist groups looking for schools to sue for failing to meet the Title IX quota. Now, courtesy of Senators Olympia Snowe and Patty Murray, they are about to have the same litigation hit list of high schools.
In a year in which Rutgers, James Madison, Ohio University, Butler, Clarion, Slippery Rock, and Syracuse have eliminated hundreds of men's roster spots in full or in part due to Title IX, we have yet to see — thankfully — boys' high-school teams eliminated under the law. But we are beginning to see boys athletic opportunities be limited due to Title IX quota creep in high schools.
(Jessica Gavora, "Title IX Trickle-Down", National Review Online/CBSNews.com, Jun. 20)
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