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Girl Wrestler Texas teenager Tara Neal insists that girls and boys should be able to wrestle on the same mat. Filmmaker Diane Zander follows Neal through the last year in which state guidelines allow her to wrestle boys. It's a year filled with family conflict, pressure to cut weight and fierce policy debates over Title IX, which grants women's athletics proportionality in public schools Link to show

Good facts, bad law: Supreme Court hears Title IX case today The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in a school case from Alabama that has implications for school boards and other educational institutions nationwide. The issue is whether Congress intended to give people the right to sue a school or university under Title IX when they allege that they suffered retaliation for complaining about discrimination against others. Title IX prohibits gender-based discrimination in educational programs that receive federal funding. Just the facts Here are accounts from Education Week and Nina Totenberg of NPR. The nutshell: Roderick Jackson, a teacher...

<p>A womens group fired the first legal salvo against the Bush administration's marriage-promotion agenda yesterday, filing a civil rights complaint that a government-funded program discriminates against women.</p> <p>The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund charged that a pro-marriage program, the Family Formation and Development Project in Allentown, Pa., provides employment services to males only. That constitutes a violation of Title IX, the group claims, because the law prohibits discrimination based on gender in any government-funded program.</p>