Extracurricular Equity

School Administrator, Dec, 1995

South Dakota is getting serious about gender equity in after-school sports and thinks top school leaders ought to be, too.

The state's high schoo1 athletic association this fall required every member school district to send two delegates-suggesting the superintendent as one of the attendees-to a two-hour in-service program on the regulations and interpretations of Title IX, the federal law governing gender equity in public education. The in-service program will precede each district's formal self-assessment of its compliance with Title IX.

The state association's invitation stated in part: "The first step to true equity requires changing attitudes. Genuine change cannot take place without complete support up and down a school's entire hierarchy."