Georgia county drops plans for single-sex schools
Greene County school officials have scrapped a controversial plan to become the country's first school district entirely separated by gender. But county schools may still wind up with some single-gender classes. The plan, approved by the school board last month, sparked heated public forums. Hundreds of parents blasted Superintendent Shawn McCollough for pushing the measure through without first consulting them. The move would have divided every school by gender, which one expert has called illegal. Now that plan has been abandoned. School board member Velicia Cobb says the district administration is polling the preferences of parents, teachers and staff members at the county's five public schools. She says once those results are in, the administration will draft a new plan for the east Georgia district's 2,000 students that mirrors the majority opinion. Cobb says that could mean some of the schools will be single gender or have single gender classes and some will not.
Source: WJBF-TV, 3/26/08, By Associated Press
[Editor’s Note: For background on the controversy, see below.]
NSBA School Law pages on single-sex schools controversy