Aqua RichJo | September 29, 2026 The federal government has formally removed the Biden administration’s 2024 Title IX regulations and restored the 2020 regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations. The change takes effect today, September 29. The 2024 rule explicitly addressed discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; the restored 2020 rule uses a narrower sexual-harassment standard and gives people accused of misconduct additional procedural protectio

Aqua RichJo | September 28, 2026 A school rule can look the same on paper for every student and still produce sharply unequal outcomes. For years, federal civil-rights officials could examine that kind of disparate impact when deciding whether a school policy needed to change. The Trump administration has narrowed that approach, according to an Associated Press review of changes in federal school oversight. In July, the U.S. Department of Education removed disparate-impact pr