| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to education; authorizing district school |
| 3 | boards to establish a school, class, or educational |
| 4 | program in which enrollment is limited to students of a |
| 5 | single gender; providing conditions to such authorization; |
| 6 | requiring that students' participation in single-gender |
| 7 | classes be voluntary; providing an effective date. |
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| 9 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 11 | Section 1. Single-gender schools, classes, and programs |
| 12 | authorized.-- |
| 13 | (1) Subject to subsection (2), a district school board may |
| 14 | establish and maintain a school, class, or program within a |
| 15 | school in which enrollment is limited to students of a single |
| 16 | gender if the school district also makes available to students a |
| 17 | coeducational school, class, or program that has substantially |
| 18 | equal academic standards and a school, class, or program for |
| 19 | students of the other gender which has substantially equal |
| 20 | academic standards. |
| 21 | (2) If a district school board establishes a single-gender |
| 22 | school, class, or program as described in subsection (1), the |
| 23 | school district may not require participation by any of its |
| 24 | students in the single-gender school, class, or program. The |
| 25 | school board must ensure that participation by students in a |
| 26 | single-gender school, class, or program is voluntary. |
| 27 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008. |