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What Can You Do to Promote Educational and Athletic Opportunity for Girls?

June 20, 2007
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  • Write a letter to you editor or school newspaper. Help commemorate the 35th anniversary of Title IX on June 23rd by writing a letter to your local newspaper or school newsletter. Explain why how Title IX has had an impact on your own life and why continuing the fight for women's equality in schools and in sports is important.
  • Download and share ACLU materials and publications on Title IX. These include:
  • Invite friends and supporters to a screening of Freedom Files: Women's Rights, which discusses some of the ACLU's work on behalf of female athletes seeking an equal playing field. You can follow the screening with a group discussion, facilitated by the Viewer's Guide. If you are a student, encourage a campus women's rights groups to host a screening.
  • Learn more about the High School Athletics Accountability Act (HR 901) and the High School Sports Information Collection Act. Earlier this year companion bills were introduced in both the House and Senate that would require high schools to report basic information on the number of female and male students in their athletic programs and the expenditures made for their sports teams. This information will allow schools to evaluate whether and where in their athletics programs inequities are occurring and will provide students and parents the information necessary to assist their schools in remedying disparities that may be limiting equal access to athletics opportunities. Explore what this legislation might mean for athletic opportunities for girls at your school and find out if your representatives in Congress support these bills.
  • Find out more about ongoing efforts to ensure equal opportunity in schools and sports. In addition to the ACLU, the following resources provide helpful information about the value of athletic participation for girls, girls' rights in schools, and ways to ensure that Title IX continues to be enforced:

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