Single-sex school in Texas?

An article called "Plan for single sex schools in East Austin is another pricey experiment" was posted on Feb. 2, 2013 and talked about a plan for single-sex schools just like the title says. Many of the Austin trustees voted to approve this plan, and many parents are not quite sure about this plan, "we all appreciate good intensions, as well as the trustees' desire to offer parents more choices, but students at those academically troubled schools deserve more than expensive experiments."

Five of nine trustees voted for single-sex schools at Pearce and Garcia, one of them was Bradley, whose district includes Pearce and Garcia middle schools. Results of the Academic development of Texas shows that grades 3rd, 4th and 5th scored a high score on the Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exams, 6th, 7th and 8th did a good job in the rate of STAAR exams in the math portion but not on the other subjects, in the other hand, "Pearce and Garcia middle schools have been rated academically unacceptable by the state in three of the past four years. according to records."

I think Bradley wants to approve with this plan because he has no other choice, Pearce and Garcia are not doing good academically at all so there's no other way to solve this problem but to approve the plan for a single sex-school. I'm not really sure how it will help reaching the Texas academic goal though. I think this article is worth reading because you can see that this plan is not well developed.

This "new" plan was actually more of a "vote of good intensions than a vote based on solid research", however, if this plan is approved, the schools are scheduled to open in the 2014-15 school year.