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...marriage and we are for what the [Supreme Judicial Court] ruled,” College Dems President Andrew J. Frank ’05 said, referring to the Court’s decision last November that paved the way for same-sex marriages in the Commonwealth...
...November, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in a 4-3 decision that it was unconstitutional to disallow same-sex marriages in the state...
...research on all-boys and all-girls schools is fairly inconclusive. At least some studies, though, have found that boys and girls learn differently and benefit from different methods of teaching. These studies claim, among other things, that single-sex schools are more orderly and that girls in same-sex schools in particular thrive in math, science, social situations and sports relative to their coed counterparts...
...while the effects of single-sex schooling are not entirely clear, there is a huge demand for it. Many of those already open have long waiting lists, and the national number of such public schools has more than doubled—to 24—in the last 18 months. Single-sex education also continues to be popular for non-public schools nationwide. The old Title IX regulations, however, only allowed families with the means to send their children to same-sex private schools; everyone else had to put up with a government-enforced notion of political correctness...
...Bush plan, as stated, would alleviate this disparity without forcing same-sex schools on anyone; in no case would students lose the right to attend a coed school. School districts would also have to ensure that their all-boys and all-girls schools and classes are “substantially equal” between genders...