Only two of the first row transition metals have elemental oxides that are either ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic; these are CrO2 and Fe3O4. The electron spin alignment enabling ferromagnetism and/or ferrimagnetism in these oxides is associated with a double exchange mechanism that requires mixed valence and metallic conductivity. This article describes a novel way to realize these two necessary, but insufficient conditions for double exchange magnetism. These are mixed valence and a hopping conductivity that can force intraplane electron spin alignment in a complex oxide host perovskite, A(B,C)O3, where A is an ordinary metal or d0 lanthanide, B is a d0 transition metal, and C is a dn transition metal with n≥1 as, for example, in GdS1−xTixO3. This article combines x-ray absorption spectroscopy, multiplet theory, charge transfer multiplet theory, and degeneracy removal by Jahn–Teller effect mechanisms to demonstrate mixed valence for both Sc and Ti above a percolation limit, x>0.16, in which hopping transport gives rise to a metal to insulator transition. In this alloy, ferromagnetism/ferrimagnetism is not observed due to alternating spin alignment in sequenced (Sc,Ti)O2 planes.