From the ECS State Policy Database Instructional Approaches--Single-Sex Education

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary VA Signed into law 02/2009 P-12 Clarifies the manner in which school boards may establish a single-sex class, program, or school in a school division; provides that participation must be voluntary and the school division must provide a substantially equal coeducational school, class, or program. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?091+ful+HB1942ER Title: H.B. 1942 Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet DE Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Allows a charter school to restrict student admissions by gender in the case of a same-gender school; provides that within a reasonable amount of time after commencement of operations of any same-gender charter school in the state, there shall be approved and operated a same-gender charter school of the opposite gender, substantially equal to the first same-gender charter school, matching in grade-level and marketed towards similar demographics. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+285/$file/legis.html?open Title: H.B. 285 Source: http://legis.delaware.gov/ MI Signed into law 08/2006 P-12 Allows single sex schools, classes and programs to be established in the Detroit public schools. Enrollment must be voluntary, and the district is required to make a substantially equal co-educational school, class or program available. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0347.pdf Title: H.B. 4264 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/ MI Signed into law 08/2006 P-12 Allows gender based classrooms, schools or programs under the Elliot-Larsen civil rights act. Relates to a school district, an intermediate school district or a public school academy. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0348.pdf Title: H.B. 6247 Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov MI Signed into law 07/2006 P-12 Provides that a school district or a public school academy may establish and maintain a program within a school in which enrollment is limited to pupils of a single gender if the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy makes available to pupils an equal coeducational school, class, or program and an equal school, class, or program for pupils of the other gender; provides that enrollment in any singe-gender school, class or program must be voluntary. http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2005-2006/publicact/pdf/2006-PA-0303.pdf Title: S.B. 1296 Source: http://www.michiganlegislature.org WI Signed into law 04/2006 P-12 Authorizes a school board to operate single-sex schools, other than charter schools, or provide single-sex courses if the school board makes available to the opposite sex under the same policies and criteria of admission, schools or courses that are comparable to each such single-sex school or course. Authorizes a school board to enter into a contract for and authorizes the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Area Technical College, City of Milwaukee, and the UW-Parkside to establish or contract to establish a single-sex charter school. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2005/data/acts/05Act346.pdf Title: A.B. 114 Source: Wisconsin Legislative Council NY (H) INTRODUCED AND REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ASSEMBLY EDUCATION 05/2005 P-12 Establishes the single gender core course academies demonstration program within the education department; provides that such program shall be established in 4 elementary schools, 8 middle schools and 1 high school which are lowperforming schools in each of the cities of New York, Yonkers, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo; provides that the program shall provide single gender classroom instruction in English, social studies, mathematics and science; requires such schools to report progress to the department and a university center of the state university of New York forstudy and reporting to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly; students shall participate in such program upon consent of their parents Title: H.B. 8092 Source: StateNet