Schiller Law Firm has helped parents from school districts nationwide
to achieve remarkable results in moving their schools into compliance with Title IX.
The following is a sampling from the state of Oklahoma
of the results achieved through this important litigation by parents
who insisted that their girls must be treated equitably.
Similar results have been obtained in other states throughout the country,
while litigation is pending in other federal courts nationwide:

Randolph v. Owasso Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Consent Decree filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District made a commitment to build a state of the art
softball complex. This complex has now been completed.

2. The School District agreed to expand participation opportunities
for female students at the middle school level.

3. The School District agreed to conduct student interest surveys to
determine girls' interest in additional sports.

4. The School District agreed to review all of its policies related to
athletic participation.

5. The School District made a commitment to add girls' volleyball to
its program.

6. The School District made a commitment to fund its sports
programs in a manner which does not discriminate against female
athletes.

7. The School District made a commitment to provide female athletes
with equipment, supplies and uniforms equivalent to that provided
to male athletes.

8. The School District agreed to facilitate a plan for achieving
sport-specific weight training and conditioning facilities and
equipment that is designed to offer benefits to girls, including the
provision of equal access to weight training and conditioning facilities
and equipment.

9. The School District committed to equivalent promotion and
publicizing of female sports.

10. The School District agreed to schedule annual educational
seminars for its teachers and administrators for the express purpose
of explaining the mandates of Title IX.

11. The School District agreed to coordinate annual student education
regarding Title IX.

Bull v. Tulsa Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Consent Decree filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District made a commitment to building seven new
softball fields and renovating two more. All nine projects have now
been completed.

2. The School District committed to efforts to encourage increased
female participation in school-sponsored sports.

3. The School District agreed that preferential use of facilities would
not be scheduled based on gender. For example: Boys and girls now
have equitable access to large and small gyms for practices.

4. The School District committed to making locker room renovations
so that designated girls' locker rooms would be comparable to boys'
locker rooms.

5. The School District agreed to ensure that females have equitable
and meaningful access to appropriate weight facilities.

6. The School District agreed to establish a plan whereby coaches will
receive education regarding the benefits of strength and conditioning
training for female athletes.

7. The School District agreed to ensure that appropriate volleyball
standards are installed in each of its high schools, and that permanent
painted volleyball markings are installed in the primary or main gym
of each high school.

8. The School District agreed to equalize coaching stipends for
coaches of girls' sports as compared to coaches of boys' sports.

9. The School District committed to utilizing gender neutral
procedures for attracting and retaining coaches for male
and female sports.

10. The School District agreed to provide girls' sports with coaches
equal in number to those supplied to comparable boys' sports.

11. The School District committed to providing equipment, supplies
and uniforms to girls and boys on an equitable basis.

12. The School District committed to scheduling game and practice
times on an equitable basis.

13. The School District agreed to provide information to sports media
on an equitable basis for boys' and girls' teams.

14. The School District committed to providing training and/or
medical services to its athletes on an equitable basis.

15. The School District committed to treating girls the same as boys
in regard to travel, meals and lodging for student athletes.

Goff v. Noble Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District committed to constructing a new softball field.
This field has now been completed.

2. The School District agreed to take affirmative steps to increase the
participation of female students in the District's athletic program.
This included the addition of Varsity girls' volleyball and the
distribution of written surveys of student interest at least once every
other year.

3. The School District committed to providing equipment, supplies
and uniforms equitably to its male and female athletes.

4. The School District agreed to establish a system of accounting for
expenditures on male and female sports.

5. The School District acknowledged its obligation to select coaches
for male and female teams using the same criteria, and acknowledged
its obligation to establish a ratio of coaches to students that is
comparable for male and female teams. In particular, the School
District agreed to insure that baseball and softball are treated the
same with respect to the ratio of coaches to athletes.

6. The School District agreed to ensure that coaches of female teams
receive special instruction regarding the value of strength and
conditioning, and to facilitate meaningful access to the weight training
facilities for girls.

7. The School District agreed to ensure that girls' locker room
facilities are comparable to those supplied to boys.

8. The School District agreed to publish to its students its
commitment to equal athletic opportunities for male and
female students.

Gilbert v. Inola Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to take affirmative steps to promote the
participation of female students in the district's athletic program.
This commitment includes the addition of varsity girls' volleyball.

2. The School District agreed to conduct a written survey of student
interest in school sports at least every other year.

3. The School District agreed to establish a system of accounting for
expenditures on male and female sports.

4. The School District agreed that it has the responsibility to
equitably support boys' and girls' sports.

5. The School District agreed to publish to its students its
commitment to equal opportunities for male and female students to
participate in athletics.

6. The School District acknowledged its obligation to select coaches
for boys' and girls' teams in an equitable manner.

7. The School District agreed to ensure that coaches of female teams
receive special instruction regarding the value of strength and
conditioning, and the use of the weight room.

Black v. Norman Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to renovate and upgrade its existing
softball field. The renovations specifically included adequate locker
room facilities, aluminum bleachers, a press box and upgrades to the
parking lot. The School District also agreed to make necessary
changes to ensure that the field was a regulation field.

2. The School District agreed to encourage increased female
participation in school-sponsored sports.

3. The School District committed to conducting student interest
surveys for the purpose of ascertaining the level of interest in existing
sports or in any sport not offered by the District.

4. The School District agreed to review overall expenditures on sports
annually, including expenditures by booster clubs.

5. The School District agreed that it is responsible for ensuring that
boys' and girls' sports are supported equitably.

6. The School District agreed to review its salary schedule to address
inequities in salaries for male and female sports' coaches.

7. The School District agreed that when any of its employees contact
the media regarding the results of school-sponsored athletic
competition, the District and its employees will provide such
information for boys' and girls' sports.

8. The School District reconfigured its locker rooms to provide for
equitable facilities to female athletes as compared to those provided
to males.

9. The School District committed to ensuring that boys and girls are
treated equitably in regard to the scheduling of practice and game times.

10. The School District agreed that when it elects to provide training
and/or medical services, it will ensure that these services are
provided equitably for boys and girls.

11. The School District purchased weights appropriate to girls'
weight training and arranged for an in-service training seminar
regarding weight training, to include proper strength and
conditioning training for female athletes.

Love v. Guymon Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to build a softball field on campus.
This field is under construction.

2. The School District agreed to add fast pitch softball at the
High School level.

3. The School District committed to providing interscholastic Junior
High fast pitch softball as soon as competition was available. In the
meantime, the School District committed to providing fast pitch
softball at the Junior High level as an intramural sport.

4. The School District agreed to encourage increased female
participation in school-sponsored sports.

5. The School District agreed to conduct student interest surveys for
the purpose of ascertaining the level of interest in existing sports or
in any sport which is not currently offered by the District.

6. The School District agreed to establish a system of accounting for
expenditures on male and female sports, and to make an expenditure
report available to anyone who requests it.

7. The School District agreed that it has a responsibility to monitor
all contributions and the effects that contributions have on
school-sponsored sports. The District recognized that it has the
responsibility to ensure that boys' and girls' sports are
supported equitably.

8. The School District committed to publishing to students its
commitment to equal athletic participation opportunities, along with
equitable treatment and benefits, for male and female students.

9. The School District committed to scheduling annual Title IX
educational seminars for its teachers and administrators.

10. The School District agreed to ensure that interested parents
and/or guardians are annually provided an opportunity to understand
the application of Title IX to the District's athletic program.

11. The School District committed to providing equitable equipment,
supplies and uniforms to their female athletes.

12. The School District agreed to schedule games and practice
on an equitable basis.

13. The School District committed to treating male and female
athletes equitably with respect to travel, meals and lodging.

14. The School District acknowledged its obligation to select coaches
for all teams based on the same criteria. The School District further
acknowledged its obligation to establish a ratio of coaches to athletes
that is comparable for male and female teams.

15. The School District agreed to facilitate female athletes'
meaningful use of the weight training facilities and to provide weight
lifting class instructors with training in proper weight lifting
techniques for female athletes.

16. The School District committed to equitably promoting a
nd publicizing female sports.

17. The School District agreed to ensure that training and/or medical
services are provided equitably to athletes of both genders.

Martin v. Sperry Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District had constructed a new facility which contained
football locker rooms and a weight room. The School District agreed
to reassign use of this facility to provide access to girls on an
equitable basis. In harmony with this commitment, the football
players will use the facility each fall, and girls' sports will move into
the facility for each Spring semester.

2. The School District agreed to ensure that coaches of female teams
receive special instruction regarding the value of strength and
conditioning for female athletes. The School District further
committed to ensuring that supervision of the weight room will be
provided in a manner conducive to equal access to weight facilities
and equipment for females.

3. The School District agreed to provide off season training
opportunities to female athletes that are the same as those available
to male athletes.

4. The School District agreed to dedicate a locker room for the
exclusive use of the softball players during their season.

5. The School District agreed to take affirmative steps to encourage
participation of female students in the District's athletic program.
These steps will include the conducting of student interest surveys.

6. The School District acknowledged the interest that female athletes
participating in school-sponsored sports have in connection with
scholarship opportunities.

7. The School District committed to ensuring that its coaches will be
responsive to student or parent requests to respond to third party
inquiries for information regarding the student and her involvement
in school sports. For example, the school will ensure that coaches
respond to college recruiters' requests for appropriate information
on female athletes.

8. The School District agreed to review its policies related to athletic
participation or participation in extra curricular activities which may
impact the opportunities of a female student to participate in a sport
or to participate in more than one sport.

9. The School District agreed to publish to students its commitment to
equal athletic opportunities for male and female students.

10. The School District committed to providing specific training
related to gender equity in school-sponsored sports, to be delivered to
the District's administrative and athletic staff, or any other staff
member or volunteer who is associated with the District's athletic
program.

11. The School District agreed to establish a system of accounting for
revenues and expenditures on male and female sports, and to provide
a revenues and expenditures report to anyone who requests it.

12. The School District acknowledged its obligation to select coaches
for all teams using the same criteria. The School District further
committed to ensuring that coach-player ratios will be consistent with
the regulations of Title IX.

13. The School District agreed that it has an obligation to furnish
equipment, supplies and uniforms to its student athletes in a manner
that does not discriminate on the basis of gender.

14. The School District committed to ensuring that female athletes
are treated in the same manner as male athletes with respect to
travel, meals, lodging and similar privileges.

Keesee v. Holdenville Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT:Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to encourage increased female
participation in school-sponsored sports, and to take
affirmative steps to increase that participation. This is to include
fully funding Freshman and Junior Varsity teams. The School District
also agreed to add Junior High fast pitch softball.

2. The School District agreed to conduct a
student interest survey to specifically include volleyball, soccer,
tennis, cheerleading and golf at all grade levels.

3. The School District agreed to ensure that softball participants play the
maximum number of available games as are available to baseball
participants, at all grade levels.

4. The School District agreed to provide all female athletes with uniforms
comparable to those provided to its male athletes.

5. The School District agreed to establish coaching offices in such a way that
access to the office by a female student does not require a
female student to enter a male locker room.

6.The School District agreed to make changes to the softball field which will
ensure equivalency to the baseball field.

7. The School District agreed to publish to its students its commitment to
equal opportunity for male and female student athletes.

8. The School District agreed to provide equivalent attention to female teams
as male teams, in connection with school announcements, advertisements,
assemblies, signs, and school publications.

McCartney v. Chouteau Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT: Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to make improvements to the softball field, including a moveable outfield fence to accommodate slow pitch and fast pitch softball, modification of the press box so as to be equivalent to the press box at the baseball field, maintenance of the field by School District personnel, a batting cage, dugouts with dugout benches which duplicate those on the baseball field, and a bullpen area.

2. The School District agreed to assign the football locker room to girls for girls use the second semester of every school year.

3. The School District agreed to facilitate meaningful use of the weight training facilities, to include a special instruction for coaches of female teams in the use of the weight room.

4. The School District agreed to ensure that the female locker room complex has sufficient and appropriate weight training equipment for strength and conditioning training of its female athletes. The School District agreed to ensure that coaches of female teams receive special instruction regarding the value of strength and conditioning and proper weight lifting techniques for female athletes.

5. The School District agreed to conduct a sports interest survey for the specific purpose of determining interest in volleyball and soccer at the high school level and volleyball, soccer and softball at the middle school level. If sufficient interest is shown in these sports, the School District agreed to provide for this interest.

6. The School District agreed to institute specific training related to gender equity in school sponsored sports to be delivered to the District's Administrative and Athletic staff, along with volunteers who are associated with the District's program of school sponsored sports.

7. The School District agreed to reserve the next coaching position hiring for a girls' team head coach.

8. The School District agreed to provide off season training to female athletes, equivalent to that provided to its male athletes.

9. The School District agreed that its coaches shall be responsive to requests from college recruiters for information regarding female athletes.

Craig v. Apache Public Schools,

United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.

RESULT OF LAWSUIT:Settlement Agreement filed with the Court.

HIGHLIGHTS OF SETTLEMENT:

1. The School District agreed to comply with the general mandates of Title IX, its Regulations, and its Interpretive Guidance.

2. The School District agreed to encourage increased female participation in school-sponsored sports.

3. The School District agreed to conduct a written survey of student interest in school sports at least once every other year, designed to maximize the input from students and parents. To include in its next survey fourth to sixth grade softball, fourth to twelfth grade volleyball, and fourth to twelfth grade soccer. The School District agreed to add any or all of these sports where sufficient interest is shown.

4. The School District agreed to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the maximum number of games are played by female sports participants. When the maximum number of games are not played, the coach is required to document any reason for not completing a full schedule of games. The School District agreed that failure to play a full schedule of games without adequate reasons shall be grounds to discipline or terminate a coach.

5. The School District agreed to provide all female athletes with uniforms comparable to those provided to its male athletes.

6. The School District agreed if a sufficient number of females are “cut” from an existing team, it will make a good faith effort to establish a new team at the appropriate level of athletic performance.

7. The School District agreed to review all of its policies related to athletic participation, and if necessary, to adopt policies to encourage girls’ sports participation at all levels. This includes a commitment from the School District to permit female students to participate in one or more athletic activities and also participate in non-athletic activities.

8. The School District agreed to provide equipment and supplies to female athletes that are of like quality to equipment and supplies provided to its male athletes.

9. The School District agreed to maintain accurate, sport by sport accounts for revenues and expenditures on an annual basis.

10. The School District agreed to maintain a practice of scheduling athletics for all grade levels in a manner that ensures that male and female students are treated equally with respect to the scheduling of opportunities for practice and the availability of practice facilities.

11. The School District agreed to ensure that coaching salaries are gender-neutral and to use the same efforts to advertise the position and seek the best qualified individual for the position when selecting a coach for female team sports as the District uses in selecting coaches for male team sports.

12. The School District agreed to allow utilization of volunteer coaches in a gender-neutral manner.

13. The School District agreed to construct locker room facilities for girls at a site convenient to the weight facilities. The School District agreed to review its facilities to ensure that the locker rooms available to females are comparable to those available to males.

14. The School District agreed to upgrade the softball field to achieve equivalence with the baseball field.

15. The School District agreed to promote and publicize female sports and encourage female team coaches to utilize available opportunities to publicize female sport involvement and accomplishments.

16. The School District agreed to provide media guides and other information prepared for the media in a similar format and comparable size for teams of either gender.

17. The School District agreed to provide pep rallies on a gender-neutral basis.

18. The School District agreed to the extent that games schedules are printed and/or paid for by the School District, booster clubs, or others, the School District agreed to provide these on a gender-neutral basis.

19. The School District agreed that it has the responsibility to ensure that boys and girls sports are supported equitably.

20. The School District agreed to provide educational seminars for its high school teachers and administrators which explain the mandates of Title IX with respect to athletic programs.

21. The School District agreed to educate its students regarding Title IX and its relationship to student participation in sports, through the schools’ physical education classes.

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