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Obama budget calls for increase in funding for campus sexual assault enforcement

By Ashe Schow
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Obama budget calls for increase in funding for campus sexual assault enforcement

President Obama, in his 2016 budget proposal, called for a 31 percent increase in funding for the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the agency responsible for enforcing Title IX and investigating colleges that don’t comply.


In recent years, OCR has been tasked with investigating student’s claims that their colleges and universities mishandled their sexual assault accusations. The agency is currently investigating nearly 100 schools.

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