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Separate But Equal And Single-Sex Schools , Gary J. Simson
Separate But Equal And Single-Sex Schools , Gary J. Simson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Spurred on by published reports about gender bias in the schools, public single-sex schools, which had almost disappeared from the scene in the U.S. fifteen years ago, began to make a comeback in the early 1990s. In addition, in the past few years, the Bush Administration has taken measures to add momentum to this development. Does the principle that separate is inherently unequal, which the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education laid down in the context of public schools separated by race, also apply to public schools separated by sex?
Part I of this Article examines the constitutionality …