Early this year, we shared the unsettling news that the Department of Education ("ED") reached a record low for Title IX case resolutions in the first year of President Trump's second term. Our research found that while thousands of students and former students languished with...
2026 UPDATE: The legislation profiled below was not successful in 2025, however, a bill modeled on it has now been introduced in the California Legislature. Learn more about AB 1784 by visiting our factsheet. For questions about this legislation or the need for state law...
New research from the Pregnant Scholar at UC Law SF's Center for WorkLife Law reveals that the U.S. Department of Education did not resolve any sexual harassment, sexual violence, or pregnancy discrimination cases during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The Department resolved...
President Trump signed an Executive Order today to dismantle much of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). “The order is an affront to our children and the future of our country,” said Jessica Lee, Co-Director of WorkLife Law and Co-Founder of WorkLife Law’s Pregnant Scholar...
On January 9, a federal district judge in Kentucky vacated the 2024 Title IX Rule for the entire country. “This shameful decision puts pregnant and postpartum students, and millions of others, in harm’s way,” said Jessica Lee, Co-Director of the Center for WorkLife Law and co-founder of the...
Updated October 1, 2024 As the Pregnant Scholar team recently reported, the Department of Education’s 2024 Title IX rules have been the subject of ongoing litigation. Due to these legal challenges, courts have temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing the new Title IX regulations in...
In the past week, two federal judges have issued rulings in response to challenges to the new Title IX regulations from the Department of Education. Jessica Lee, Director of the Pregnant Scholar Initiative and incoming Co-Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Law...
Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 protects pregnant and parenting students, serving as a key tool in the effort to ensure women have access to education. But until recently, many people were unfamiliar with Title IX outside of its effects on athletics and...
Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in education, prohibits discrimination related to pregnancy and marital status, including discrimination against college students and employees who are pregnant outside of marriage, divorced, or have had an abortion. The federal law also requires universities to ensure...
Texas just enacted several groundbreaking new laws to protect pregnant and parenting college students at public institutions of higher education! While the protections only cover some aspects of student’s education, we’re celebrating as Texas is now one of just a few states to explicitly protect...
