Already under scrutiny for meeting with students who had been falsely accused of rape, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had the situation escalate when the head of her department’s Office of Civil Rights made troubling generalizations about campus sexual assaults.
On July 13, Ms. DeVos met with survivors of sexual assault, as well as students who had been falsely accused of sexual assault and disciplined under Title IX, the 1972 law that protects students from discrimination based upon gender, as part of an effort to re-evaluate President Obama’s expansion of the law to include colleges’ investigations of sexual assault complaints.
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