Summary#
This bill would require local school districts that get federal money to increase the number of full-time Title IX Coordinators for K–12 schools. It sets staffing ratios based on student counts, limits other job duties that could create conflicts, and lists duties for coordinators such as outreach, monitoring complaints, overseeing prevention education, and collecting climate data. The bill also creates federal grant programs to train teachers and staff about sex-based harassment and authorizes a federally developed, anonymous sex-based harassment survey for students and staff. The Secretary of Education would collect and publish statistics from the survey and produce reports to Congress. Local agencies may request waivers if the requirements pose an insurmountable financial burden and must submit alternative plans that include partnerships with local crisis or community organizations.
What it means for you#
- Students and parents: schools must publicize who the Title IX Coordinators are and how to reach them; parents may opt their children out of the survey.
- Students and staff: schools would provide annual, age-appropriate, trauma-informed prevention education and training; schools would conduct anonymous surveys about sex-based harassment and its impacts.
- School staff and administrators: districts must add at least one full-time Title IX Coordinator per specified number of students and ensure coordinators do not hold certain other administrative roles that could create conflicts of interest. Districts may seek waivers if they cannot meet requirements and must partner with local support organizations under an approved alternative plan.
Expenses#
- The bill authorizes $50,000,000 per year for each of the first five fiscal years to fund training grants (Section 3).
- The bill authorizes $10,000,000 per year for each of the first five fiscal years to develop and run the sex-based harassment survey (Section 4).
- For the Title IX Coordinator staffing requirements, the bill authorizes "such sums as may be necessary" for each of the first five fiscal years to provide grants to local educational agencies to offset the financial burden (Section 2(d)).
- No total cost estimate or additional budget projections are provided in the text.
Proponents' View#
Supporters describe the bill as strengthening Title IX implementation in elementary and secondary schools by increasing coordinator capacity, standardizing prevention training, improving data collection on sex-based harassment, and supporting survivors. The bill also states it is valuable for students to have access to confidential reporting and encourages schools to provide that where allowed by law.
Opponents' View#
No publicly available information.