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0000017d-2122-dd26-adfd-e56710b50000The New Classroom is a special reporting series, supported by The Walton Family Foundation, exploring the struggles, changes and innovations in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find reports in this series listed below.

Sex-Segregated Classrooms Subject of Scrutiny

An all-boys class at P.E. at Southside Elementary in Siloam Springs.
Jacqueline Froelich
An all-boys class at P.E. at Southside Elementary in Siloam Springs.

In early December the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued new Title IX guidelines to all public schools with single-gender classes. Arkansas has six dozen such classrooms across ten districts. Jacqueline Froelich spoke with several gender equity advocates about the guidelines. 

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Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.