WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- At least 241 schools in the United States now have gender-segregated classes.
The U.S. Department of Education is expected to release guidelines soon which could cause those numbers to exploded, Stateline.org reported. Administrators are caught between conflicting laws, the No Child Left Behind Act, which allows single-sex classrooms, and the 1972 law that bans gender discrimination.
The National Association for Single Sex Public Education says that the number of programs has grown from five a decade ago, and 33 states have single-sex classrooms. Ohio and New York each have 10 public schools that are divided by gender, Indiana has seven and Pennsylvania five.
The association told Stateline.org that 42 of the 51 gender-segregated schools have opened since the No Child Left Behind Act became law. There are 19 schools just for girls, 16 for boys and 16 that are coeducational but segregate classes.
