Welcome
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Title IX Compliance
Title IX protects students, employees and applicants for employment, and other persons from all forms of sex discriminiation, including discrimination based on gender identity or failure to address stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity. All students (as well as other persons) at institutions /districts that receive federal funds are protected by Title IX - regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, race, or national origin - in all aspects of a recipient's educational programs and activities (OCR Title IX Resource Guide).
Contact Us
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Elaine Smith
Director of IX
802 N. Sam Houston
Odessa, Texas 79761
432-456-9349
The Law & TItle IX Officer Duties
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Examples of Title IX Concerns:
- Gender Discrimination
- Domestic and/or Dating Violence
- Sexual Harassment
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual misconduct (inappropriate touching, comments, text messages)
- Gender Identification Discrimination
- Teasing or Bullying/Cyperbullying because of gender/gender identification
For more information you may visit: The Office of Civil Rights.
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Role of the Title IX Director:
Although the recipient of the complaint is ultimately responsible for ensuring that it complies with Title IX and other laws, the Title IX coordinator/director is an integral part of a recipient's systematic approach to ensuring nondiscrimination, including a nondiscriminatory environment. Title IX coordinators/directors can be effective agents for ensuring gender equity within their institutions only when they are provided with the appropriate authority and support necessary to coordinatre their institution's Title IX compliance, including access to all of their institution's relevant information and resources (OCR Title IX Resource Guide).
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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Is a federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal funds. Title IX states:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal finanacial assistance."
