Male Coach’s Title IX Claim Is Dismissed

A federal judge from the Southern District of New York has sided with a school district in a case in which a male track coach of the boys’ track team alleged that that he was fired because he complained that the girls’ track program received preferential treatment.   Along other things, the court found that the coach failed to demonstrate that the defendants’ actions were pretext for the discriminatory actions he alleged.   Barry Bastian, 58, was a tenured educator and former hea