{"id":22730,"date":"2014-09-03T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22730"},"modified":"2014-09-03T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:32:01","slug":"aclu-challenges-single-gender-programs-in-three-more-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/09\/03\/aclu-challenges-single-gender-programs-in-three-more-counties\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Challenges Single-Gender Programs In Three More Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21195\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Students at the all-girls Ferrell Preparatory Academy in Tampa.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-15-FerrellAcademyStudents.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21195\" alt=\"Students at the all-girls Ferrell Preparatory Academy in Tampa.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-15-FerrellAcademyStudents-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-15-FerrellAcademyStudents-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2014\/01\/1-15-FerrellAcademyStudents-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at the all-girls Ferrell Preparatory Academy in Tampa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union has filed federal complaints challenging single-gender education programs in Broward, Hernando and Volusia county schools.<\/p>\n<p>The group argues single-gender programs violate anti-discrimination laws and are based on flawed science. The ACLU has previously filed a complaint against single-gender programs in Hillsborough County schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents should know that their school districts are spending tens of thousands of dollars training teachers that boys and girls are so different that they have to be taught separately using radically different teaching methods,\u201d ACLU attorney Amy L. Katz said in a statement. \u201cThis theory is based on junk science that has been soundly debunked by experts, and has never been shown to improve educational outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU complaint alleges the group has found documents that outline different teaching methods for boys and girls. That violates federal Title IX laws, the group said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/05\/15\/explaining-the-research-on-single-gender-classes\/\">research on the efficacy of single-gender programs is mixed<\/a>. Studies tied to pro- and anti-single gender education advocacy groups have &#8212; not surprisingly &#8212; concluded the evidence supports their position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall there\u2019s some positive findings in the research,\u201d said Sara Mead, a policy analyst with D.C.-based Bellwether Education Partners, told StateImpact in May, \u201cbut it\u2019s really mixed and overall there\u2019s not a lot of really high-quality research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/01\/13\/why-florida-wants-to-expand-single-gender-classes\/\">we asked students at single-gender schools in Tallahassee and Tampa<\/a> what they thought about their schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union has filed federal complaints challenging single-gender education programs in Broward, Hernando and Volusia county schools. The group argues single-gender programs violate anti-discrimination laws and are based on flawed science. The ACLU has previously filed a complaint against single-gender programs in Hillsborough County schools. \u201cParents should know that their school districts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":21195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[913,910],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22732,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22730\/revisions\/22732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}