Disappearing Comments

Comments close on Title IX regulations and thousands of comments disappear

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.

Proposed Federal Rules on Title IX Draw Flood of Public Comments (edweek.org)

Biden Education Department Declines to Explain 160,000 ‘Missing’ Public Comments on Redefining ‘Sex’ in Title IX (dailysignal.com)

Comment from Politico:

CLERICAL ERROR IN TITLE IX COMMENT COUNT: Wondering why the number of comments on the Biden administration’s Title IX rule dropped from 349,177 comments on Tuesday? The department found a clerical error with a comment unrelated to the proposed regulation that boosted it by about 200,000 comments.  {view article here}