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ACLU challenges single-sex classrooms

Nov. 13, 2008
Civil rights group says Hankins Middle School classes violate constitution.

The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to the Mobile County (Ala.) Public School System challenging Hankins Middle School's placing boys and girls in separate classes. Allison Neal, a staff attorney for the ACLU in Alabama, says the policy violates the Constitution and Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gender discrimination in public schools.

To read The Mobile Press-Register article, click here.

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