Will Betsy DeVos remove schools’ Title IX power to adjudicate off-campus sexual misconduct?

Published December 2, 2019 3:47pm ET



Any day now, the Department of Education will release its finalized adaptation of Title IX protocols, dictating how colleges handle sexual assault and harassment. Although the rules will likely match most of the stipulations released by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos last year, the final code is rumored to nix her earlier proposal to remove all off-campus allegations of sexual assault or harassment from the jurisdiction of Title IX inquiries.

Asked about the controversial stipulation by the Washington Examiner in an hour-long editorial meeting, DeVos had this to say:

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