Michigan Compiled Laws
451-1976-1-6 - Part 6 School Districts of the First Class (380.401...380.485)
Section 380.475 - Single-Gender School, Class, or Program; Establishment; Availability of Equal Coeducational School, Class, or Program.

Sec. 475.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the board of a first class school district may establish and maintain a school, class, or program within a school in which enrollment is limited to pupils of a single gender if the school district also makes available to pupils a substantially equal coeducational school, class, or program and a substantially equal school, class, or program for pupils of the other gender.
(2) If the board of a first class school district establishes a single-gender school, class, or program described in subsection (1), the school district shall not require participation by any of its pupils in the single-gender school, class, or program. The board 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 also makes available to the pupil a substantially equal coeducational school, class, or program.
History: Add. 2006, Act 347, Imd. Eff. Sept. 1, 2006

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