Senate committee debates bill to require clearer Title IX information for pregnant and parenting students

Senate Bill 91, introduced in the Senate Education Committee on the agenda, would require schools that receive federal funding to prominently publish Title IX policies and reporting processes on their websites and provide clear access to complaint forms and supportive measures for pregnant and parenting students.

The bill’s prime sponsor, Senator Laura Sturgeon, told the committee it grew out of a women’s caucus meeting where visitors from DAPI (the Delaware Adolescent Program) described how pregnant and parenting students “often do not know their rights, do not know what Title IX covers, or what Title IX coordinators should be doing.” Sturgeon said accommodations can include “temporary leaves of absence for doctor's appointments, birth and postpartum, additional academic support, counseling, opportunities to make up missed work.”

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