Identifying US K-12 Public Schools with Deliberate Sex Segregation by Sue Klein, Ed.D., Jennifer Lee, Paige McKinsey, and Charmaine Archer with assistance from Ponta Abadi, Makhfi Azizi, Ishmael Bishop, Talia Cowen, Beth Feldstein, Tamara Stein and Kathleen Wilson Feminist Majority Foundation December 11, 2014 www.feminist.org/education/SexSegregation.asp Copyright © December 2014 by Feminist Majority Foundation All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, write:
[email protected] Feminist Majority Foundation 1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801 Arlington, VA 22209 IDENTIFYING US K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS WITH DELIBERATE SEX SEGREGATION OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY Background: Why the Identification of US Public School Sex Segregation is Now an Especially Important Challenge? . ..................................1 Key Findings and Recommendations . ……………………………………………………………………4 Overview of Methodology ................................................................................. 11 Sources of Data for this Report ............................................................................ 12 DETAILED FINDINGS Overview of Information to Identify US K-12 Public Schools with Deliberate Academic Classes ...................................................................... 14 Likely Changes in Numbers of Schools with Deliberate Sex Segregation from 2007-10 and 2011-12 State and Regional Patterns of Sex Segregation in Public Schools 2007-10 and 2011-2014 Summary Information on Public K-12 Coed Schools with Single-sex Classes