NBC: K-12 schools keep mishandling sexual assault complaints. Will new Title IX regulations help?

May 25. 2020

ERA Staff Attorney Maha Ibrahim spoke with NBC national news in an article about K-12 schools mishandling of Title IX cases, specifically those addressing sexual assault.

We have, in fact, talked to employees who were the Title IX coordinator and they didn’t know that was assigned to them at some point,” said Maha Ibrahim, a staff attorney with Equal Rights Advocates, a nonprofit that has studied how California schools deal with sexual misconduct.

Read the article. (Content warning: sexual assault)

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