Title IX Gender Quota Is at Center of Court Case

By Ellen Rugeley   Title IX became the center of attention when The American Sports Council (ASC) filed suit this summer against the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), claiming that using gender quotas to enforce Title IX in high school athletic programs is in violation of the Equal Protection Clause and is thus unconstitutional. The suit, American Sports Council vs. Department of Education, was filed on behalf of the ASC by attorneys at the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) in the U.S. Distr