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Subject: RE: Legality of single-sex education
Author: edequity@tristram.edc.org at internet
Date: 2/25/98 6:41 PM
Is anyone out there aware of any action being taken related to the
single sex schools being started in California with the help of its
governor???
Darcy Lees
NCSEE Chair
<DLees@inspire.ospi.wednet.edu>
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> From: Linda Purrington[SMTP:lpurring@earthlink.net]
> Reply To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 1998 10:27 PM
> To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Subject: Re: Legality of single-sex education
>
>
> Thank you, Jo. Readers may also want to know that the Office for
> Civil
> Rights of the U.S. Department of Education is charged with
> administering
> Title IX, but can and has been challenged on its interpretations of
> Title IX in other branchs of the governemnt, such as the legislatures
> and the courts.
> Does anyone know the final disposition of the Detroit programs
> that
> were started and then, I believe, challenged and closed by court
> decision?
> Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates <lpurring@earthlink.net>
>
>
> Jo Sanders wrote:
> >
> > This information comes from Pat Campbell, who has extensively
> studied the
> > legality of single-sex education:
> >
> > In response to complaints, the US Office of Civil Rights has ruled
> that
> > programs to assign students to classes on the basis of gender are
> not
> > allowed under Title IX, even if the assignment is voluntary on the
> part
> > of the students. However, they have also ruled that having a coed
> math
> > class and a second class targeted for female students but accessible
> to
> > all students regardless of sex is allowed. (US GAO, 1996).
> >
> > The United States General Accounting Office (1996, pp. 6-7) went a
> step
> > further, concluding in a report to the US House of Representatives
> that
> > restricting enrollment in a public school by sex violated Title IX
> of
> > the Education Amendments of 1972, and may also violate the equal
> > protection clauses of the United States constitution and different
> state
> > constitutions.
> >
> > In a related effort, a recent Supreme Court decision declared that
> "the
> > Constitution^Rs equal protection guarantee precludes Virginia from
> > reserving exclusively to men the unique educational opportunities
> VMI [a
> > publicly funded, single-sex male university] affords" (United States
> Vs
> > Virginia et al, Nos. 94-1941 and 94-2107, 1997). This decision was
> > directed toward a public college, but may have implications for
> public
> > elementary and secondary schools.
> >
> > I hope this clarifies some issues.
> >
> > Jo Sanders
> >
> > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> >
> > Jo Sanders
> > Director, Center for Gender Equity
> > Washington Research Institute
> > 150 Nickerson Street, Suite 305
> > Seattle, WA 98109
> > Phone (206) 285-9317
> > Fax (206) 285-1523
> > E-mail <jsanders@wri-edu.org>
>