If your child is facing a Title IX case at their high school in Iowa, you need to take the necessary precautions before you engage with the school in any capacity because too much is at stake. However, the Title IX Final Rule allows for a more structured and arguably equitable process than previous guidance. You cannot assume it will be a fair process. It will require a dedicated effort for an accused student to be found not responsible.
The Title IX Final Rule also allows for a high school to resolve a case through either the investigation model or the live hearing model. Each has its own pros and cons. You need to familiarize yourself with how your school will address and adjudicate the case and respond accordingly. It is a high stakes and an involved process. Every step through the process needs to be calculated.
An experienced attorney-adviser will be your son or daughter's best ally if they're facing a Title IX case at their high school, and they should be involved as early as possible in the process to help work towards a favorable outcome.
Iowa high schools where Joseph D. Lento can help as your child's student's Title IX advisor during investigations, hearings and appeals include, but are not limited to, the following school districts:
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- Adair-Casey School District
- Adel-DeSoto-Minburn School District
- AGWSR School District
- A-H-S-T School District
- Akron Westfield School District
- Albert City-Truesdale School District
- Albia School District
- Alburnett School District
- Alden School District
- Algona School District
- Allamakee School District
- Allison-Bristow School District
- Alta School District
- Ames Community School District
- Anamosa School District
- Andrew Community School District
- Anita School District
- Ankeny Community School District
- Anthon-Oto School District
- Aplington-Parkersburg School District
- Ar-We-Va School District
- Armstrong-Ringsted School District
- Atlantic School District
- Audubon School District
- Aurelia School District
B
- Ballard Community School District
- Battle Creek-Ida Grove School District
- Baxter School District
- BCLUW School District
- Bedford School District
- Belle Plaine School District
- Bellevue Community School District
- Belmond-Klemme School District
- Belmond-Klemme School District
- Bennett Community School District
- Benton School District
- Bettendorf Community School District
- Bondurant-Farrar School District
- Boone Community School District
- Boyden-Hull School District
- Boyer Valley School District
- Brooklyn-Guernsey-Malcom School District
- Burlington School District
C
- C and M School District
- CAL School District
- Calamus-Wheatland Community School District
- Camanche Community School District
- Cardinal School District
- Carlisle School District
- Carroll School District
- Cedar Falls Community Schools
- Cedar Rapids Community School District
- Center Point-Urbana Community School District
- Centerville School District
- Central City School District
- Central Clinton Community School District
- Central Decatur School District
- Central Lee School District
- Central Lyon School District
- Central School District
- Chariton School District
- Charles City School District
- Charter Oak-Ute School District
- Cherokee School District
- Clarinda School District
- Clarion-Goldfield School District
- Clarke Community School District
- Clarksville School District
- Clay Central-Everly School District
- Clayton Ridge School District
- Clear Creek-Amana School District
- Clear Lake School District
- Clearfield School District
- Clinton Community School District
- Colfax-Mingo School District
- College Community School District
- Collins-Maxwell School District
- Colo-Nesco School District
- Columbus School District
- Coon Rapids-Bayard School District
- Corning School District
- Corwith-Wesley School District
- Council Bluffs Community School District
- Creston Community School District
D
- Dallas Center-Grimes School District
- Danville School District
- Davenport Community Schools
- Davis County School District
- Decorah School District
- Deep River-Millersburg School District
- Delwood Community School District
- Denison School District
- Denver School District
- Des Moines Independent Public School District
- Diagonal School District
- Dike-New Hartford School District
- Dows School District
- Dubuque Community Schools
- Dunkerton Community Schools
- Durant Community School District
E
- Eagle Grove School District
- Earlham School District
- East Buchanan School District
- East Central Community School District
- East Greene School District
- East Marshall School District
- East Union School District
- Eastern Allamakee School District
- Eddyville-Blakesburg School District
- Edgewood-Colesburg School District
- Eldora-New Providence School District
- Elk Horn-Kimballton School District
- Emmetsburg School District
- English Valleys School District
- Essex School District
- Estherville Lincoln School District
- Exira School District
F
- Fairfield Community School District
- Farragut School District
- Forest City School District
- Fort Dodge School District
- Fort Madison School District
- Fredericksburg School District
- Fremont-Mills School District
G
- Galva-Holstein School District
- Garner-Hayfield School District
- George-Little Rock School District
- Gilbert School District
- Gilmore City-Bradgate School District
- Gladbrook-Reinbeck School District
- Glenwood School District
- Glidden-Ralston School District
- GMG School District
- Graettinger School District
- Greene School District
- Grinnell-Newburg School District
- Griswold School District
- Grundy Center School District
- Guthrie Center School District
H
- Hamburg School District
- Hampton-Dumont School District
- Harlan School District
- Harmony School District
- Harris-Lake Park School District
- Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn School District
- Highland School District
- Hinton School District
- H-L-V School District
- Holy Family Catholic Schools
- Howard-Winneshiek School District
- Hubbard-Radcliffe School District
- Hudson School District
- Humboldt School District
I
- IKM School District
- Independence School District
- Indianola School District
- Interstate 35 School District
- Iowa City Community School District
- Iowa Falls School District
- Iowa Valley School District
J
- Janesville Consolidated School District
- Jefferson-Scranton School District
- Jesup School District
- Johnston School District
K
- Keokuk School District
- Keota School District
- Kingsley-Pierson School District
- Knoxville School District
L
- Lake Mills School District
- Lamoni School District
- Laurens-Marathon School District
- Lawton-Bronson School District
- Le Mars School District
- Lenox School District
- Lewis Central School District
- Lineville-Clio School District
- Linn-Mar Community School District
- Lisbon Community School District
- Logan-Magnolia School District
- Lone Tree School District
- Louisa-Muscatine School District
- LuVerne School District
- Lynnville-Sully School District
M
- Madrid Community School District
- Malvern School District
- Manning School District
- Manson Northwest Webster School District
- Maple Valley School District
- Maquoketa Community School District
- Maquoketa Valley School District
- Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn School District
- Marion Independent School District
- Marshalltown School District
- Martensdale-St Marys School District
- Mason City Community School District
- Mediapolis School District
- Melcher-Dallas School District
- Meservey-Thornton School District
- Mid-Prairie School District
- Midland School District
- Missouri Valley Community School District
- Montezuma School District
- Monticello School District
- Moravia School District
- Mormon Trail School District
- Morning Sun School District
- Moulton-Udell School District
- Mount Ayr School District
- Mount Pleasant School District
- Mount Vernon Community School District
- Murray School District
- Muscatine Community School District
N
- Nashua-Plainfield School District
- Nevada School District
- New Hampton School District
- New London School District
- New Market School District
- Newell-Fonda School District
- Newton School District
- Nishna Valley School District
- Nodaway Valley Community School District
- Nora Springs-Rock Falls Community School District
- North Cedar Community School District
- North Central School District
- North Fayette Community School District
- North Iowa School District
- North Kossuth School District
- North Linn Community School District
- North Mahaska School District
- North Polk Community School District
- North Scott Community School District
- North Tama County School District
- North Winneshiek School District
- Northeast Community School District
- Northeast Hamilton School District
- Northwood-Kensett School District
- Norwalk School District
O
- Odebolt-Arthur School District
- Oelwein Community School District
- Ogden Community School District
- Okoboji School District
- Olin Consolidated School District
- Orient-Macksburg School District
- Osage School District
- Oskaloosa School District
- Ottumwa School District
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- Panorama School District
- Paton-Churdan School District
- PCM School District
- Pekin School District
- Pella Christian Schools
- Pella School District
- Perry School District
- Pleasant Valley Community School District
- Pleasantville School District
- Pocahontas Area School District
- Pomeroy-Palmer School District
- Postville School District
- Prairie Valley Community School District
- Prescott School District
- Preston Community School District
R
- Red Oak School District
- Remsen-Union School District
- Riceville School District
- River Valley School District
- Riverside School District
- Rock Valley School District
- Rockwell City-Lytton School District
- Rockwell-Swaledale School District
- Roland-Story School District
- Rudd-Rockford-Marble Rock Community School District
- Russell School District
- Ruthven-Ayrshire School District
S
- Sac School District
- Saydel School District
- Schaller-Crestland School District
- Schleswig School District
- Sentral School District
- Sergeant Bluff-Luton School District
- Seymour School District
- Sheffield-Chapin School District
- Sheldon School District
- Shenandoah School District
- Sibley-Ocheyedan School District
- Sidney School District
- Sigourney School District
- Sioux Center School District
- Sioux Central School District
- Sioux City Community Schools
- Solon School District
- South Clay School District
- South Hamilton School District
- South O'Brien School District
- South Page School District
- South Tama County School District
- South Winneshiek School District
- Southeast Polk Community School District
- Southeast Warren School District
- Southeast Webster Grand School District
- Southern Cal School District
- Spencer School District
- Spirit Lake School District
- Springville School District
- Stanton School District
- Starmont School District
- Storm Lake School District
- Stratford Community School District
- Sumner School District
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- Terril School District
- Tipton Community School District
- Titonka Consolidated School District
- Treynor School District
- Tri-Center School District
- Tri-County School District
- Tripoli School District
- Turkey Valley School District
- Twin Cedars School District
- Twin Rivers School District
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- Underwood School District
- Union Community School District
- United Community School District
- Urbandale School District
V
- Valley Community School District
- Van Buren School District
- Van Meter School District
- Ventura School District
- Villisca School District
- Vinton-Shellsburg School District
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- Waco School District
- Wall Lake View Auburn School District
- Walnut School District
- Wapello School District
- Wapsie Valley School District
- Washington School District
- Waterloo Community Schools
- Waukee School District
- Waverly-Shell Rock School District
- Wayne Community School District
- Webster City School District
- West Bend-Mallard School District
- West Branch Community School District
- West Burlington Independent School District
- West Central Community School District
- West Central Valley School District
- West Delaware County School District
- West Des Moines Community Schools
- West Hancock School District
- West Harrison School District
- West Liberty Community School District
- West Lyon School District
- West Marshall School District
- West Monona School District
- West Sioux School District
- Western Dubuque Community School District
- Westwood School District
- Whiting School District
- Williamsburg School District
- Wilton Community School District
- Winfield-Mt Union School District
- Winterset School District
- Woden-Crystal Lake School District
- Woodbine School District
- Woodbury Central School District
- Woodward-Granger School District
It is critical to make certain the Title IX investigation at your child's Iowa high school is handled properly and that the accused student's interests and rights are protected from as early as possible during the sexual misconduct investigative process. One major reason is because even at high schools where a finding of responsibility for sexual misconduct charges is made at a hearing, the investigation will set the stage for what the hearing panel is provided prior to a hearing (and what the hearing panel will in large part rely on at a hearing), and at high schools where the finding of responsibility is made solely through the investigative process, what takes place during the investigation itself will determine whether the accused student is found responsible or not responsible for Title IX charges.
Unfortunately, some parents make the mistake of not taking the necessary precautions as soon as possible when accused of sexual misconduct. Some people will mistakenly believe that if they "just explain what happened," their school will be fair and impartial and will arrive at the truth. In a perfect world this may be the case, but in a perfect world, sexual misconduct allegations and Title IX charges would not exist.
Fighting passionately for the future of his clients at schools throughout the nation for many years, Joseph D. Lento knows how important it is to mount the strongest defense because he understands that an accused high school student's academic future is on the line. He does not settle for the easiest outcome, and instead prioritizes his clients' needs and well-being. Joseph Lento is a licensed attorney in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, is admitted as an attorney pro hac vice in state and federal court if needed when representing clients nationwide, and serves as a Title IX attorney advisor to high school students facing sexual misconduct investigations and disciplinary cases in Iowa and throughout the nation. Make certain your or your student's interests are protected - Contact National High School Title IX Attorney Joseph D. Lento today at 888-535-3686.
