SEARCH SITE

VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

ACROSS SESSIONS

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2009 SESSION


CHAPTER 84
An Act to amend and reenact § 22.1-212.1:1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to single-sex education.
[H 1942]
Approved February 25, 2009

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 22.1-212.1:1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 22.1-212.1:1. Single-sex education.

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