tina wrote:
>
> I am sorry to be coming on what seems the tail-end of this flurry of
> information regarding the single-sex public school issue. I wanted you to
> know, especially Linda Purrington, that the New York City Chapter of the
> National Organization for Women and the New York Civil Liberties Union have
> been actively involved with trying to get the office of civil rights to
> enforce Title IX in the case of the Harlem Leadership School for Girls. They
> have met with Norma Cantu on several occasions--to no avail. NOW-NYC's
> former president, Anne Conners, and Michael Meyers of NYCLU--are, to my
> knowledge, the only two people speaking out on this issue (besides
> yourselves ofcourse)--and NOW-NYC has taken a lot of blows from their stand.
> NOW's position is basically: 'we get thousands of calls from women suffering
> from sexual harrassment in the workplace--we don't tell them 'the only thing
> we can do is create separate-sex work environments..why should we run away
> from, and sex-segregate, these problems when they concern teenage girls.."
> Also, the NAACP has also taken a stand against these public single sex
> schools...
>
> Just so you know--the Office of Civil Rights has been stunningly
> disinterested in enforcing Title IX in these cases.
>
> <tina@tiac.net>
tina wrote:
>
> I am sorry to be coming on what seems the tail-end of this flurry of
> information regarding the single-sex public school issue. I wanted you to
> know, especially Linda Purrington, that the New York City Chapter of the
> National Organization for Women and the New York Civil Liberties Union have
> been actively involved with trying to get the office of civil rights to
> enforce Title IX in the case of the Harlem Leadership School for Girls. They
> have met with Norma Cantu on several occasions--to no avail......
> Just so you know--the Office of Civil Rights has been stunningly
> disinterested in enforcing Title IX in these cases.
>
> <tina@tiac.net>