Title IX Sexual Harassment Prohibited

1. Sexual harassment as defined in Title IX impending regulations (“Title IX Sexual Harassment”) is prohibited. Any person, including a District employee or agent, or student, engages in Title IX Sexual Harassment whenever that person engages in conduct on the basis of an individual’s sex that satisfies one or more of the following: District employee conditions the provision of an aid, benefit, or service on an individual’s participation in unwelcome sexual conduct; or

2. Unwelcome conduct determined by a reasonable person to be so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the District’s educational program or activity; or

3. Sexual assault as defined in 20 U.S.C. §1092(f)(6)(A)(v), dating violence as defined in 34 U.S.C. §12291(a)(10), domestic violence as defined in 34 U.S.C. §12291(a)(8), or stalking as defined in 34 U.S.C. §12291(a)(30).

Examples of Title IX Sexual Harassment can include, but are not limited to, touching, crude jokes or pictures, discussions of sexual experiences, teasing related to sexual characteristics, spreading rumors related to a person’s alleged sexual activities, rape, sexual battery, sexual abuse, and sexual coercion.

• Non-Discrimination Commitment

• BOE Policy 2:265, Title IX Sexual Harassment Grievance Procedure

• BOE Policy 7:10, Equal Educational Opportunities

• BOE Policy 7:20, Harassment of Students Prohibited

• Title IX Trainings