Single-Sex Education

aka Sex-Segregated Schools
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Teach Kids Not Stereotypes

By Allie Bohm, ACLU at 10:23am
Today, we are sending demand letters to school districts in Florida, Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama insisting that they take steps to end ... Read More

The Young Women Who Taught Lane Tech a Lesson

In defiance of its male students, Chicago's Lane Technical High School decided to admit girls in 1971. The author was among the first class of freshman girls to enter ... Read More

Single-Sex Education Will Not "Save" Minority Boys

By Allie Bohm, ACLU at 1:24pm
Imagine you’re a principal confronted with these facts: according to a 2010 report, the dropout rates for Black and Latino males are well above 50 percent in ... Read More

Madison School Board Rejects Sex Segregated School

By Galen Sherwin, Women's Rights Project at 10:13am
Early Tuesday morning in Wisconsin, the Madison School Board voted 5-2 against a proposal to start a charter school that would have segregated students on the ... Read More

Turning the Tide Against Unlawful Sex Segregation in Public Schools

By Mie Lewis, Women's Rights Project at 12:32pm
In recent years, the number of public schools segregating their students by sex has ballooned, despite mounting evidence that single-sex programs don’t ... Read More

Following ACLU Demands Pittsburgh Ditches Single-Sex School Plans

By Sara Rose, ACLU of Pennsylvania , ACLU of Pennsylvania & Sue Frietsche, Women's Law Project at 4:00pm
This week, the Pittsburgh Public School District agreed to drop sex-segregated classes at Westinghouse, a grades 6-12 public school, after the ACLU of ... Read More

Same Gender Education a Gimmick

By Ronald E. Jackson, Executive Director, Citizens for Better Schools at 11:30am
Here in Alabama and across the South, our public schools — and the children who attend them — are under continuous assault. Cuts in state funding, school ... Read More

ACLU Lens: Sex-Segregated Education Will Not Cure Our Ailing Schools

By Robyn Shepherd, ACLU at 4:47pm
Galen Sherwin of the ACLU Women's Rights Project was recently featured in the New York Times' Online Room for Debate discussing the drawbacks to sex-segregated ... Read More

Experimenting with Sex Segregation in the Classroom? Not with My Girls

By Jane Doe at 4:39pm
Yesterday, the ACLU settled a lawsuit challenging sex segregation of a public middle school in Kaplan, Louisiana. Facing a wave of recent victories in the ... Read More

"Science" Says No to Single-Sex Education

By Galen Sherwin, Women's Rights Project at 1:04pm
When it comes to public education, there is no doubt that we are in a crisis, particularly when it comes to low-income and minority students. Unfortunately, the ... Read More
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