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Title IX regulations (34 CFR Part 106)

US federal law: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (20 U.S.C. §1681) bars sex discrimination in education programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance, and the Department of Education's regulations at 34 CFR Part 106 say how a recipient — including a school district — must organise its response. Curated here: the Title IX Coordinator provision, the definitions, the response to sexual harassment, and the grievance process with its recordkeeping duty.

Which text is in force (checked 2026-10-12). The regulations have changed twice since 2020. As the Department's recodification rule recounts it, the 2020 rule (85 FR 30026) was "effective on August 14, 2020"; the 2024 rule (89 FR 33474) had "a declared effective date of August 1, 2024", was preliminarily enjoined in 26 states, and was then "vacated in full" by final judgments in Tennessee v. Cardona, No. 24-cv-72 (E.D. Ky. Jan. 9, 2025) and Carroll Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Dep't of Educ., No. 24-cv-461 (N.D. Tex. Feb. 19, 2025). The Department then published the Recodification of Title IX Rules, 91 FR 61308, a final rule effective 29 September 2026 that, in its own words, repeals the 2024 final rule "and restoring the regulatory text that existed prior to the 2024 rulemaking", because "the 2024 final rule has been vacated and is not enforceable nationwide" and "the regulatory text that existed before promulgation of the 2024 final rule, which is in force, should be recodified". The eCFR (title 34 up to date as of 8 October 2026) carries that restored text; its version history for §§106.8, 106.30, 106.44 and 106.45 ends on 2026-09-29. That is the text reproduced here. Between January 2025 and 29 September 2026 the CFR still printed the vacated 2024 text, so any extraction from that period (including this corpus's eCFR builder's default as-of date) would have captured a rule not in force.

Applicability to EdTech

Title IX is about sex discrimination, including sexual harassment; it does not set up a general safeguarding or child-protection contact. What it says about who at a school receives a report:

• The designated employee is the Title IX Coordinator, and there may be more than one. A recipient "must designate and authorize at least one employee to coordinate its efforts to comply with its responsibilities under this part, which employee must be referred to as the “Title IX Coordinator.”" (COORDINATOR-AND-RESPONSE.md#p-106-8-a). The text speaks of "the employee or employees designated as the Title IX Coordinator"; it does not use the word deputy.
• Availability. Anyone may report "in person, by mail, by telephone, or by electronic mail, using the contact information listed for the Title IX Coordinator, or by any other means that results in the Title IX Coordinator receiving the person's verbal or written report", and "Such a report may be made at any time (including during non-business hours)" (COORDINATOR-AND-RESPONSE.md#p-106-8-a). The Coordinator's contact information must be displayed on the recipient's website (COORDINATOR-AND-RESPONSE.md#p-106-8-b-2-i).
• In a K-12 school, notice to any employee counts. Actual knowledge "means notice of sexual harassment or allegations of sexual harassment to a recipient's Title IX Coordinator or any official of the recipient who has authority to institute corrective measures on behalf of the recipient, or to any employee of an elementary and secondary school" (COORDINATOR-AND-RESPONSE.md#section-106-30). A recipient with actual knowledge "must respond promptly in a manner that is not deliberately indifferent", and "The Title IX Coordinator must promptly contact the complainant to discuss the availability of supportive measures" (COORDINATOR-AND-RESPONSE.md#p-106-44-a).
• Record-keeping. For each response required under §106.44, "a recipient must create, and maintain for a period of seven years, records of any actions, including any supportive measures, taken in response to a report or formal complaint of sexual harassment" (GRIEVANCE-PROCESS.md#p-106-45-b-10-ii); investigation, appeal, informal-resolution and training records are kept for seven years as well (GRIEVANCE-PROCESS.md#p-106-45-b-10-i).

The regulations bind the recipient (the district or school), not a vendor. Who must report suspected child abuse to the authorities is a matter of state law — see the pilot states' reporting statutes listed under Related.

Contents

Scope note: the rest of Part 106 (admissions, athletics, employment, the procedural provisions) is not extracted; the statute is linked rather than reproduced.

Enforcement

The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, as a condition of federal financial assistance (procedures incorporated by §106.81, not extracted).

Licence

The corpus reproduces 34 CFR §§ 106.8, 106.30, 106.44 and 106.45 (Department of Education) verbatim from the eCFR, published by the Office of the Federal Register and the Government Publishing Office. The statute is linked, not reproduced. It is a work of the United States Government. 17 U.S.C. § 105(a) (govinfo, United States Code 2024 edition, title 17 § 105, read 2026-10-01) provides: "Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."

The Government Publishing Office's Public Domain & Copyright Notice (govinfo.gov/about/policies, read 2026-10-01) adds: "By virtue of the foregoing, public documents can generally be reprinted without legal restriction. However, Government publications may contain copyrighted material which was used with permission of the copyright owner." It also says that "whenever a work is published consisting predominantly of work of the U.S. Government, the copyright notice (if any) must identify those parts of the work in which copyright is claimed per 17 U.S.C. § 403."

Conditions: none attach to the text itself. The one formal point is § 403: if the public pages ever carry a copyright notice, it must identify the parts in which copyright is claimed (the corpus's own curation) and not cover the reproduced federal text. The corpus names the source in its Sources section and in each fact document's {.meta} provenance lines, and its Meta section describes what it changed (anchors added, nothing reworded).

Related

• FERPA — the records regime that governs what a district may share with a vendor
• Indiana — duty to report child abuse or neglect — state mandated reporting, which Title IX does not displace
• KCSIE (England) — the English designated safeguarding lead, a general safeguarding role Title IX has no equivalent of

Sources

• eCFR — 34 CFR Part 106 (Title IX regulations), current text
• 91 FR 61308 (29 September 2026) — Recodification of Title IX Rules
• 20 U.S.C. §1681 (Title IX statute)