Plain English Breakdown
The bill summary and text do not provide specific details on how schools should determine what constitutes 'substantially similar' or 'reasonably comparable'.
Education Opportunity Act
This bill allows Tennessee's public schools and institutions to offer programs that benefit one gender if they also provide substantially similar or reasonably comparable benefits for the other gender through different programs.
What This Bill Does
- Allows a public institution of education in Tennessee to provide an opportunity or benefit exclusively to one sex, as long as it provides a substantially similar or reasonably comparable opportunity or benefit to the opposite sex through a different program.
Who It Names or Affects
- Public schools and educational institutions in Tennessee
Terms To Know
- Substantially similar
- Very close or nearly the same, but not exactly identical.
- Reasonably comparable
- Comparable in a fair way that makes sense and is just right.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill did not pass and was stopped in the Senate Education Committee.
- It does not specify how schools should decide what counts as 'substantially similar' or 'reasonably comparable'.