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A newly compiled video of Guilford Board of Education meetings from 2020 through 2023 delivers a damning record of willful non-compliance with federal law. The footage, assembled from publicly available COVID-era recordings and shared with the Connecticut Centinal, shows the district’s leadership and board deliberately stalling the mandatory adoption of the Trump Administration’s 2020 Title IX Rule for roughly two and a half years.
The 2020 Title IX regulations took effect on August 14, 2020. They strengthened protections against sexual harassment and assault, added “sexual assault” as a distinct category, and required a more rigorous, multi-decision-maker investigation process designed to prioritize the rights of students and staff over institutional reputation. Federal law required school districts receiving federal funds to implement these changes. Guilford did not fully codify them until January 9, 2023.
Instead, the board and administration appeared to treat the new federal requirements as optional — or worse, as a political inconvenience.
“Hold-Over Policy from the Last Administration”
At the center of the footage is Moira Rader, then Guilford BOE Secretary and Policy Chair. Rader, a Democrat, is now a Connecticut State Representative for the 98th District (Guilford and Branford) and is seeking reelection this November.
In the meetings, Rader repeatedly dismisses the Trump Title IX Rule as a “hold-over policy from the last administration.” She and other officials cite President Biden’s early executive order and the appointment of “our own Miguel Cardona” (the former Connecticut education commissioner elevated to U.S. Education Secretary) as reasons to table discussion and wait for anticipated changes. The board effectively parked mandatory federal protections while waiting for a more ideologically preferred rewrite.
The video evidence shows the district apparently understood the 2020 Rule was in force and superseded conflicting local or state practices. Yet it continued the delay presumably for political reasons — specifically hostility toward the Rule’s clear recognition of biological sex as male and female, which conflicted with expanding gender-identity ideology.
Politics First, Student Safety Second
The timeline is particularly galling. On the very day the federal Title IX Rule took effect — August 14, 2020 — the Guilford Board of Education formalized the change of the high school mascot from the “Indians” to the “Grizzlies.” Multiple special meetings that summer focused on the mascot, diversity initiatives, and reducing public comment time from four minutes to three. New policies around “controversial topics” also advanced. Meanwhile, the legally required Title IX updates sat on the shelf.
This occurred at the height of the pandemic, when children were already isolated, stressed, and uniquely vulnerable. Victims of sexual assault — including LGBTQ+ students who would have benefited from the strengthened federal process — were left without the full suite of Title IX rights and investigative protections for more than two years.
The board and administrators later suggested the eventual 2023 adoption was merely about aligning with “state” regulations rather than correcting their own prolonged non-compliance with federal law. Those statements shielded the district from scrutiny and may have prevented victims from learning that their federal rights had been denied during the delay.
A Pattern the Federal Government Is Now Confronting
A July 10, 2026 Dear Colleague Letter from the U.S. Department of Education underscores why this matters. The letter reminds federally funded schools of their non-negotiable Title IX obligations to respond promptly and appropriately to sexual misconduct — especially by adults in positions of authority — and makes clear that state laws, local policies, or institutional preferences cannot override those duties. Deliberate indifference or delay is a violation.
The Guilford compilation is presented as further evidence in ongoing reviews of how some districts subordinated student protections to political signaling.
Connecticut parents and voters deserve school boards and legislators who put children’s safety and federal law ahead of ideology. The record in Guilford raises serious questions about both.
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Ms. Rader and company essentially committed an unsanctioned act of “nullification”.
The act itself is not inherently negative nor immoral. It has positive value and potential as well, especially within the U.S. system. And ideology lies behind everything.
The troubling aspect of this issue is how WE have allowed so many Americans to be educated away from truth and responsibility and toward a base ideology only to acquire and exploit positions of influence and policy making.