Title IX Office

Management
Oversight Report

Board of Education
August 10, 2021
Organization
Chart
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
"No person in the United States shall,
on the basis of sex, be excluded from
participation in, be denied the benefits
of, or be subjected to discrimination
under any education program or
activity receiving Federal financial
assistance."

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 Human
Resources
Student
Discipline & Title IX
Behavior Office
Support

CMS Police/
Social
Workers/ School
Counselors Resource

Safety is an Officers

intentional
and strategic ESL
Department
Athletic
Director

collaboration
General
Principals
Counsel

Teachers
Compliance
and School
Office
Based Staff
 Administrators must respond to every
report/allegation of misconduct.

Schools
The response must be prompt, effective and
have an equitable.
obligation
to respond The response to the allegation must end the
discrimination, prevent its recurrence, and remedy
the effects upon the victim and the school
community.
 CMS Centralized Recordkeeping System
• All reports are required to be
documented in the
Centralized Recordkeeping
System.
• Regardless of the method
used to resolve the reported
incident, every school must
provide parents with an
outcome letter.

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 ✔All students and staff should receive Title IX
training.

Guidance ✔All students, staff and parents should know

how to report incidents of sexual misconduct
for Best and/or bullying.
Practices
✔All students, staff and parents should know
how to find the CMS Grievance Procedures
on the CMS website.
How Are We Doing?
 Reports By School Year
# of Reported Allegations

1,614

1,072

491

215
116

2016-2017 * 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 ** 2020-2021 +

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Student Voice
 2020-21 Student Culture Survey Results
Q. I have experienced bullying at this school n=36,947

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 2020-21 Student Culture Survey Results
Q. I have experienced sexual harassment at this school n=28,853

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 2020-21 Student Culture Survey Results
Q. Students at this school are teased or picked on because of their n=10,810
sexual orientation or gender identity

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Looking Forward
 ✔ Updated anti-harassment posters will be printed
and delivered to all schools by the first week of
school.

✔ A CMS Commitment of Safety letter will be

included in the first day of school information. The
Awareness letter will include how to report any allegations of
sexual misconduct and/or discrimination. The letter
Campaign will also identify the campus Title IX liaison.

✔ A link has been added to every school website

informing students, parents and staff how to report
prohibited conduct and identify there Title IX
Campus Liaison.

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Awareness
Resources

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 ❑ All school-based and support staff will receive
Annual Title IX training Aug. 3 – 24

❑ Students will receive their Annual training as

follows:
- High school: Within the first 10 days of school
Training - Middle and elementary schools: Within the first
20 days of school

❏ All district staff receive Annual sexual harassment

awareness training in August of each school year.
 ✔ During the 2021-22 school year, the district Title
IX student training lessons will be reviewed and
updated. Any updates will be reflected in the
student training beginning in the fall of the 2022-
Goals 23 school year.

and Next ✔ Continue to partner with CMS Communications to

promote awareness around how to report and to
Steps whom to report allegations of sexual misconduct.
✔ Provide support to the Superintendent’s Task
Force that will be created to address issues of
sexual assault.
QUESTIONS

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