Gender & Sex Discrimination Gender & Sex Discrimination:
Education Women’s Law Project and ACLU Applaud PPS Agreement to
End Gender Segregation at Westingthouse Academy Calling it “a
step toward genuine reform,” women’s rights advocates at the
Women’s Law Project, ACLU of Pennsylvania, and ACLU’s Women’s
Rights Project applauded the decision of the Pittsburgh Public
Schools (PPS) to end its recent experiment with gender
segregation for core academic classes taught at Westinghouse
Academy, a grade 6-12 public school. The agreement to end
single-sex classes in all core subjects at Westinghouse
effective no later than February 1, 2012, was announced at a
school board meeting on November 7, 2011, following months of
discussions between PPS and the advocacy organizations, which
were initiated at the request of parents of Westinghouse
students. If approved by the PPS school board, the agreement
will avert the filing of a federal civil rights complaint
against the school district with the U.S. Department of Educatio