11. Department of Education · Minor
Remove the archived Title IX religious exemption 'list of shame'
Printed page 357 11. Department of Education
“The President should issue an executive order removing the archived list and preventing such a list from being published in the future.”
What has happened
- Not started
The archived list is still published. "Religious Exemptions Index Archive" — described in the page's own metadata as "a searchable database of Title IX religious exemptions", index updated as of December 31, 2016 — remains live on ed.gov under Title IX Exemptions, and the page footer records that the Department last reviewed it on 2026-01-29. No executive order in the window removes it or forbids republishing such a list; the Corpus's 277 executive orders contain nothing on Title IX religious exemptions, and the Department's Title IX work in the window has been enforcement (the 2025-02-04 Dear Colleague Letter, the Special Investigations Team) rather than anything touching the archive.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Also live: the underlying correspondence file. Both appear in the ed.gov sitemap fetched 2026-08-27.
- A search of presidential documents in the Federal Register and White House presidential actions for “religious exemption” found nothing; a Federal Register search for ED documents mentioning Title IX religious exemptions since 2025-01-20 found nothing.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- Archived Department of Education list of colleges seeking Title IX religious exemptions
- ID
- 904