Colorado's first all-girls public school coming to Denver
Following a growing nationwide trend toward single-gender classroom education, the first all-girls public school in Colorado will open next year in Denver.
In 2002, only 11 U.S. public schools offered single-gender classrooms. Today, at least 547 public schools offer single-sex classes, according to the National Association for Single-Sex Public Education. At least 91 of those schools are single-gender schools.
The surge comes three years after a federal rule said single-sex classrooms weren't discriminatory and as emerging research suggested that girls' and boys' brains develop differently."