SB-1296, As Passed Senate, June 15, 2006

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 1296

(As amended, June 15, 2006)

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled

"The revised school code,"

by amending section 1146 (MCL 380.1146).

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

     Sec. 1146. (1)  A  Except as otherwise provided under

subsection (2), a separate school or department shall not be kept

for a person on account of race, color, or  sex  gender. This

section shall not be construed to prevent the grading of schools

according to the intellectual progress of the pupil to be taught in

separate places as may be deemed expedient.

     (2) <<Subject to subsection (3),>> The board of a school district

or board of directors of a

public school academy may establish and maintain a school, class,

or program within a school in which enrollment is limited to pupils

of a single gender if a comparable school, class, or program is

Senate Bill No. 1296 as amended June 15, 2006

available to pupils of each gender.

     <<(3) If the board of a school district or board of directors of a public school academy establishes a single-gender school, class, or program described in subsection (1), the school district or public school academy shall not require participation by any of its pupils in the single-gender school, class, or program. The board or board of directors shall ensure that participation by pupils in a single-gender school, class, or program is wholly voluntary. For the purposes of this subsection, participation by a pupil in a single-gender school, class, or program is not considered to be voluntary unless the school district or public school academy also makes available to the pupil a COMPARABLE coeducational school, class, or program.>>