Career and Technical Education: Petitions for Compliance Reviews

Career and Technical Education

Petitions for Compliance Reviews

The National Women's Law Center is committed to ending sex discrimination in career and technical education programs. For the 30th anniversary of Title IX, in 2002, the Center petitioned the Department of Education to perform compliance reviews of CTE programs in selected states to identify systemic barriers that limit young women's access to CTE programs that are nontraditional for their gender. Although the Department of Education at that time declined to conduct any investigations, the Center hopes that the new Administration will make it a high priority to enforce Title IX in CTE programs.

• Department of Education Office for Civil Rights "Abdicates Responsibility" for Gender Discrimination in Vocational and Technical Education, Says NWLC (June 20, 2003)
• Charts: Sex Segregation in Vocational and Technical Courses (June 2002)
• Petitions for Compliance Reviews of 12 High School Vocational and Technical Programs by the United States Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, Regional Offices (June 6, 2002)