Under Title IX, to achieve
gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different
requirements: 1)
equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).
The FEAs have taken many forms, including: sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) implementation in Texas; community - based
equity assessment in Texas; IDRA's Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) program implementation in reading in Louisiana;
gender equity also in Louisiana; implementation of a multicultural framework in staff development to support student success in New Mexico; parent leadership in New Mexico; unitary status planning in Arkansas; English as a second language (ESL) classroom strategies in Arkansas; service learning in Oklahoma; and meeting civil rights
requirements under the law in Oklahoma.