{"data":{"id":"us-va/va.-code-22.1-212.1-1","jurisdiction":"us-va","citation":"Va. Code § 22.1-212.1:1","heading":"Single-sex education","body":"Consistent with constitutional principles, a school board may establish a single-sex school or class in the school division, if the school board makes available to pupils substantially equal coeducational schools or classes. Participation in such single-sex school or class shall not be required by the school division, and the school board shall ensure that participation by pupils in the single-sex school or class is voluntary. For the purposes of this section, participation by a pupil in a single-sex school or class is voluntary only if the school division also makes available to the pupil a substantially equal coeducational school or class.1995, c. 582; 2009, c. 84.","path":["Title 22.1. EDUCATION","Chapter 13. PROGRAMS, COURSES OF INSTRUCTION AND TEXTBOOKS","Article 1. PROGRAMS AND COURSES OF INSTRUCTION GENERALLY"],"source_url":"https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/22.1-212.1:1/","current_through":"9/4/2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T15:14:54Z","sha256":"ea8eeffca4254e93cadb0b280a5042e49aad9d3bc47c28298f2da9390d2ea84e","source_id":"us-va","stale":true,"prev":"us-va/va.-code-22.1-212.1","next":"us-va/va.-code-22.1-212.1-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}