Education Secretary Betsy DeVos finalizes new rules for investigating campus sexual assault cases that give more rights to those accused
The new regulations establish how schools are to handle sexual misconduct cases under the federal law Title IX, including laying out a series of procedures for reporting cases and provisions that allow those accused to question evidence and cross-examine accusers.DeVos had vowed two years ago to overhaul the Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault, arguing that the policy denies due process to the accused.
"Read MoreKenneth Marcus, the assistant secretary of the department's Office for Civil Rights, said that the new regulation is a"game-changer" and"establishes that schools and colleges must take sexual harassment seriously.""It marks the end of the false dichotomy of either protecting survivors, while ignoring due process, or protecting the accused, while disregarding sexual misconduct," he said in a statement.
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