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    When an Internal Investigation Fails: A Lesson for Youth-Serving Organization

    ByDebbie Ausburn June 16, 2026June 12, 2026

    On May 21, 2026, a federal district court allowed a former Virginia Tech student’s Title IX claims to proceed, after cataloguing a series of investigative and procedural failures that the court found raised a plausible inference of sex discrimination. The order is not a verdict. Virginia Tech may yet prevail. But the court’s detailed account of what…

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  • The First Story We Hear May Not Be the Whole Story
    Title IX

    The First Story We Hear May Not Be the Whole Story

    ByDebbie Ausburn August 8, 2022

    A long-standing Title IX lawsuit illustrates the importance of paying attention to every claim from a child, no matter how minor it seems at first.  A middle-school student in Fairfax County Public Schools sued the district, claiming that her school administrators did not take her claims of sexual harassment seriously. The case has been hung…

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