President Biden speaks as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at the White House on Oct. 17, 2022. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Weingarten added that the administration's rules – which are set to go into effect in August – would "remove dangerous regulations put in place in 2020 and put us back on the path of honestly discussing the modern realities of equal access to education."
In a separate comment letter, NEA President Rebecca Pringle similarly praised the regulations and urged the Education Department to act expeditiously to finalize them.
"We commend the Department for this proposed rule, which restores crucial protections, creates uniform processes, and provides much-needed clarification and formalization of protections that further the broad mandate of Title IX to prohibit sex discrimination in education," Pringle wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and Assistant Secretary Catherine Lhamon.
Pringle's letter emphasized the importance of the regulations' expansion of Title IX protections to include transgender students. She said they would protect a transgender student who is "discriminated against and shamed when told they cannot use the bathroom."
Then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the Title IX regulations she finalized would create fairness in the sexual assault due process system. (Yuri Gripas/Getty Images)
In evaluating the parties’ evidence, a school must use the "preponderance of the evidence" standard of proof unless the school uses the clear and convincing evidence standard in all other comparable proceedings.
Department of Education officials first proposed the regulations in 2022, but have delayed finalizing them to review the tidal wave of more than 240,000 public comments. The Trump-era regulations were finalized by then-Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in May 2020.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Civil liberties, students' rights and conservative legal groups have called on the Biden administration to preserve the 2020 regulations.
AFT and NEA didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Fox News' Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
Subscribed
You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-title-ix-rules-are-a-victory-for-powerful-teacher-unions-fueling-dem-campaigns