Feb 25 2008
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AP: Georgia school system plans to separate boys and girls
GREENSBORO, Ga. - Nearly four decades after this rural Georgia county stopped segregating its schools by race, it wants to divide students again - this time by sex. Greene County is set to become the first school district in the nation to go entirely single-sex, with boys and girls in separate classrooms - a move born of desperation over years of poor test scores, soaring dropout rates and high numbers of teenage pregnancies.
