Noncompliance Case Study

In order for an institution to be in violation of Title IX, the school must have authority over the harasser and over the environment in which the harassment took or takes place, its response to harassment is “clearly unreasonable in light of known circumstances,” (Marshal 2014) failing to respond to hostile educational environment, and if the victim can show that the school purposely ignored reported acts of violence and harassment occurring in school programs and activities (Edwards 2015). Noncompliance puts the school at risk of losing federal funding. In the case of before the fact indifference, a school had previous knowledge of an admitted student being a possible threat to other students and does not take the proper steps to ensure other