New Federal Civil Rights Initiative to Combat Sexual Assault in K-12 Schools
Citing the troubling statistic that, “The number of K-12 sexual harassment complaints filed with OCR [Office for Civil Rights] is nearly fifteen times greater than it was a decade ago,” U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, announced on February 26, 2020 a new Title IX enforcement initiative to combat a concerning rise of sexual assaults