GOP senator questions new Title IX policies

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after questioning the legality of new Department of Education Title IX regulations and receiving an answer he claims shows that the new standards equate to "executive overreach." In early January, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford penned a letter to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the the Department's October 2010 and April 2011 'Dear Colleague' letters,

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after questioning the legality of new Department of Education Title IX regulations and receiving an answer he claims shows that the new standards equate to "executive overreach." In early January, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford penned a letter to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the the Department's October 2010 and April 2011 'Dear Colleague' letters,…