Oklahoma’s Elite State Boarding School Refuses to Adopt Title IX Protections. A Departing Administrator Called It a Crisis Waiting to Happen.

And yet, in the fall of last year, an administrator resigned with a dire message to the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics board. The Legislature established the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics in 1983 as a state agency with a 25-member governing board, independent of the state’s public school system. Nancy Potter, education attorney and Title IX specialistMany are under the umbrella of a university or located on a college campus that is already subject to Title IX. But even ones that aren’t have adopted Title IX policies. Federal funding is the trigger for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights’ authority to enforce Title IX.