SCOTUS To Consider Whether Title IX’s Protections Cover Employment Sex Discrimination This Fall

By Ellen J. Staurowsky, Ed.D., Senior Writer, and Professor, Sports Media (retired), Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College In October of 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to consider whether employees working in federally funded schools have an implied private right of action to contest sex discriminatory treatment under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. The Court will address a circuit split emerging from a ruling in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Elev