ACLU Pushes Missouri District To End Single-Gender Classes

The AP (11/21) reports that the ACLU is calling on the Adrian R-III school district in Missouri "to stop offering single-gender classes." The district "began offering single-sex math and communication arts classes this fall to sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. ... Single-sex classes began proliferating after a US Education Department ruling in 2006, which allows such classes whenever schools think it will improve achievement. But the ACLU has argued the regulations conflict with the US Constitution and Title IX, a federal law banning sex discrimination in education."