Why can't I find the No Child Left Behind Act?

A lot of you are having trouble finding the text of the No Child Left Behind Act. Well, one possible reason is that while it is known as "No Child Left Behind" it is actually called the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Here's the gist of what's important for our debate (notice the big purple bit later on):

Note: Don't get confused by the difference between single sex schools and single sex classes at co-ed schools. These are different! Make sure you understand the difference!

Resource: Education World, 2004
http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/NELB/NELB078.shtml


No Educator Left Behind:Single-Sex Education
No Educator Left Behind is a series providing answers from the U.S. Department of Education to questions about the federal No Child Left Behind Act and how it will affect educators. If you have a question about No Child Left Behind, send an e-mail to Ellen Delisio, and we will submit your question to the Department of Education.
Question:
Under NCLB, are schools allowed to have single-sex classrooms or schools?
U.S. Department of Education:
On March 3, 2004, the Department of Education proposed to clarify its regulations regarding when single-sex classes and schools are permitted at the elementary and secondary school levels.
In issuing this proposal, the department is, in large part, continuing the bipartisan language co-authored by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) in the No Child Left Behind Act that allows public school districts to use federal funds for single-sex schools and classes. The proposal gives more flexibility to educators to provide a wide range of educational programs and more options for parents, while neither encouraging nor favoring single-sex education.
The proposal addresses two specific areas -- single-sex classes and single-sex schools. With regard to classes, current regulations prohibit school districts (and private schools that receive federal assistance) from offering single-sex classes except in areas involving physical education, sex education, or chorus. The proposed changes would allow these schools and districts to offer single-sex classes when the single-sex nature of the class is substantially related (a) to providing a diversity of educational options or (b) to meeting the particular, identified needs of students.
Under the proposal, schools and districts must treat male and female students evenhandedly in providing single-sex classes. Student participation in single-sex classes would be on a voluntary basis. A substantially equal coeducational class in the same subject always would be required. Schools and districts would be required to evaluate single-sex classes periodically to ensure consistency with these nondiscrimination requirements.
While currently a school district may provide a single-sex public school when it offers comparable benefits and opportunities to students of the other sex in another school, the department has interpreted this provision to require two comparable single-sex schools, one for boys and one for girls. The proposed change would clarify that a district that provides a single-sex public school may offer the required substantially equal benefits and opportunities to students of the other sex in either a single-sex school or coeducational school. There would be an exemption to the requirement to provide either a single-sex school or coeducational school for students of the other sex for single-sex public charter schools that are single-school district.