Tuesday, April 9, 12-1:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin by educational institutions that receive federal funds, including public schools, colleges, and universities. On the basis of their shared ancestry and ethnicity, Jewish students are protected from harassment and discrimination and cannot be denied access to educational opportunities.

Please join the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia’s Jewish Community Relations Council, the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey and the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, an organization dedicated to fostering community, professional development, and cultural enrichment among Philadelphia’s Jewish lawyers, judges, and law students, to learn about using Title VI to address antisemitic harassment and discrimination of students.

About the Course

This CLE course will be led by attorneys from the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a civil rights legal advocacy organization.

The presentation by the Philadelphia Regional Director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will explain the mission of OCR and provide information regarding OCR’s enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, schools’ legal obligations under Title VI, and recent examples of OCR investigations of complaints alleging shared ancestry discrimination and/or harassment.

The attorneys from the Brandeis Center will explain how the Center uses Title VI to support students — both K-12 and on campus — and address antisemitic harassment and discrimination, including filing Title VI complaints with the OCR, which can then investigate and impose corrective actions on schools that fail to address hostile environments and other forms of discrimination. The course will include details on:

• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,

• examples of harassment of and/or discrimination against Jewish students covered by Title VI,

• the university’s and public school’s obligation to record, report, and respond to student complaints of bias and harassment,

• best practices and procedures, and

• guidance on how to protect students from harassment and discrimination without violating the First Amendment or the doctrine of academic freedom.

Attorneys from Pennsylvania and New Jersey can earn 1½ hours of substantive CLE credit for $18 by attending this timely and important discussion.

General Admission: $18.00.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.