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The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]]. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]]. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
#have the same proportion of girls in sports as enrolled in the school,
#'''''have the same proportion of girls in sports as enrolled in the school''''',
#are expanding the opportunities for girls in sports, or
#are expanding the opportunities for girls in sports, or
#are satisfying the entire interest of girls to participate in sports.
#are satisfying the entire interest of girls to participate in sports.