22.1-212.1:1 - Single-sex education - Virginia Statutes

§ 22.1-212.1:1. Single-sex education.

Consistent with constitutional principles, a school board may establish asingle-sex school or class in the school division, if the school board makesavailable to pupils substantially equal coeducational schools or classes.Participation in such single-sex school or class shall not be required by theschool division, and the school board shall ensure that participation bypupils in the single-sex school or class is voluntary. For the purposes ofthis section, participation by a pupil in a single-sex school or class isvoluntary only if the school division also makes available to the pupil asubstantially equal coeducational school or class.

(1995, c. 582; 2009, c. 84.)