HEADLINE: Title IX commission report
to be delayed to February
BYLINE: Thomas O'Toole
and Oscar Dixon
BODY: The commission
studying possible changes to Title IX cannot meet its deadline for a final
report to the secretary of Education and has revised its timetable by about a
month. A Jan. 8 meeting has been canceled, and the Jan. 31 report deadline to
Secretary of Education Rod Paige will be pushed into late February. William
Hansen, deputy secretary of education, Sunday called the delay "very common,"
adding this is "nothing more than (commissioners) needing a little bit more time
over the holidays." The 15-member commission was named in June to study the
30-year-old law, which prohibits sex discrimination at schools receiving federal
funds. Title IX proponents are bracing for changes, including
a possible softening of enforcement. In the last few days, there has been
an extensive e-mail campaign to commissioners in support of the current
legislation, but Hansen said that had nothing to do with the schedule change.
Commission member Deborah Yow, athletics director at the University of Maryland, said Sunday that the delay "is the right thing to do" because
the timetable became "too ambitious. I had a sigh of relief."
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