By Dr. William Bosher, NBC12 Education Specialist RICHMOND, VA
(WWBT) - Delegate Chris Peace recently introduced legislation -
House Bill #1942 - that clarified how a school board may
establish a single-sex class or school. While flying through the
House and Senate, this bill amended the code of Virginia to
require school boards to create single-sex programs only when
they're voluntary and where they have provided "substantially
equal coeducational classes in their schools." Delegate Peace
knows first-hand the advantages of a single-sex school. Many of
the private institutions in the area have long based their
admission, in part, on this environment A recent poll by the
Commonwealth Educational Policy Institute, however, revealed
that 65 percent of Virginians are against schools for just boys
or girls. The overwhelming opposition is equally interesting in
light of the reality that 70 percent of the homes in Virginia do
not have school-age children. The National Association for
Single-Sex Public Education stre