BIG: Terry McAuliffe's former law firm and the National School Boards Association are pushing (through a case they want to take to the Supreme Court) for an interpretation of Title IX that is less favorable to victims and more favorable to administrators
Loudoun County blamed Title IX for its rape coverup, saying it would lobby Washington to make the law more favorable to victims. But Terry McAuliffe's former law firm and the NSBA (which likened parents to domestic terrorists) are actually pushing for the opposite.
On one side is the NSBA, Fairfax County Public Schools, and its attorney Hunton Andrews (where McAuliffe worked until his campaign).
On the other side is a public interest law firm and 23 women's and civil rights groups.
Hunton lost, but wants to take it to the Supreme Court.
FCPS paid Hunton $9M since 2019, the year it named McAuliffe a policy adviser. Hunton paid McAuliffe > $250k in most recent disclosed period
In exchange for the big legal bills, school administrators hope they'll be exposed to less legal liability, including from female victims
The point is school admins don't necessarily have the same interests as parents. Why would they? They are discrete interest groups. Often they are at odds
McAuliffe was paid by a law firm that makes big bucks fighting parents and alleged victims on behalf of administrators.
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NEW ON LOUDOUN: Over a period of years, Loudoun repeatedly failed to disclose sex assault incidents to the state and public despite law. A state database shows "0" during multiple time periods where highly-public incidents happened.
NEW ON LOUDOUN: Three weeks after bathroom rape, the superintendent claimed "to my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms" -- but state law requires principals to report all sex assaults to the superintendent.
As Loudoun schools sought to pass a controversial transgender policy in June, it concealed that a 9th-grade girl was allegedly raped by a "gender fluid" student in a school bathroom just 3 weeks prior, The Daily Wire has learned.
In June, LCPS lectured the public for worrying about a "red herring," saying the district had 0 bathroom assaults on record. It quietly transferred the boy charged in the May 28 assault to a new school.
October 6, he was arrested for a new sex assault inside a classroom there.
The father of the victim is a man you've seen: The bald man being dragged by the police.
The county's top elected prosecutor personally tried to put him in jail. He was issued a no-trespassing order keeping him from telling his story at the meeting where the trans policy passed.
The two national teachers unions have donated a combined $1 million to McAuliffe's campaign for Virginia governor.
The law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth, has been paid $8M since 2019 to do what the mom says is Fairfax County Public Schools' dirty work fighting against parents.
1,400 pages of billing records show Hunton advocating for the interest of the school system as it was found responsible for violating environmental regulations; apparently negotiating with foreign hackers after student data was stolen in a ransomware attack;
A Maryland 'equity' office planned to mark 9/11 by hosting a play that it said explores "Islamophobia" — in which the main Arab-American character admits he was "proud" when the Twin Towers fell, and another says America “deserved what it got.”
It advertised the play as exposing "prejudices... in even the most progressive cultural circles."
But the Equity office did not appear to read the play, which it abruptly cancelled: The play ends with a white liberal woman being beaten by an Arab and lamenting her "naievete."
In it, white liberal Emily lectures her husband Amir that Islam does not actually encourage men to beat their wives, as he says it does. She also disagrees with a black woman for being conservative, then sleeps with her husband. When Amir finds out, he brutally beats her.
The SECURITIES & EXCHANGE COMM is set to copy K-12 equity efforts
But whereas K-12 erases discipline disparities by lowering standards (avoiding 'school-to-prison-pipeline') SEC found no disparities, so it will put MORE employees in pipeline to find them
SEC IG found that few employees were disciplined, & no racial disparities. But said "Equity should be present in every facet of the work environment."
It will now lower the threshold of "suspected" misconduct that sends employees to HR
This report, which says that in the Biden admin, orgs must focus not just on equal opportunities but on avoiding “disparate outcomes" from "unconscious bias," was written by an IG, the gov's most independent&nonpartisan entity. Afghanistan IG also removed reports at Biden request