W. Joseph Hatley, Monday, March 08, 2010 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
The New York Times today that OCR plans to open up compliance reviews of 32 school districts. While it is not surprising that the Obama administration intends to be more vigorous in the enforcement of civil rights laws, the approach that OCR plans to take is a bit unprecedented. Instead of just confirming that a school district has policies requiring, for example, equal opportunities for women in athletics, OCR plans to dig deeper to see if the policies actually have resulted in the exercise of those opportunities.