What progress is being made in revising Title IX provisions on single-gender education programs in schools?
Secretary Spellings: Well, I don’t know if the person means K-12 schools. One of the things about Title IX is we have had what has been understood particularly in the higher-end community to be a quota system. And Title IX actually provides three tests to meet the requirements of Title IX with respect to opportunity for usually women and girls. I’m a mother of two daughters. I’m a real live soccer mom. I’m obviously a woman myself, so I care about this. I care about opportunities for girls. And one of the things we need to do is make sure that institutions around the country know how they can comply with the law. And the Congress provided three ways to meet the test of compliance with Title IX, and there had been a lot of reliance, really, only on one part of it, the part that was construed to be more of a quota-type system. But interest is certainly an indicator that ought to be looked at, and can be looked at. And so we provided guidance early in the administration to provide technic
