Last week, comprehensive sex education expanded to three states. The Kansas Board of Education, in a 6-3 vote, will be ending its one-year abstinence-only education program for comprehensive sex education. In addition, Massachusetts’s governor, Deval Patrick (D) has also made a step towards comprehensive sex education by announcing that he may refuse the $700,000 federal grant. MA has had federally funded abstinence-only education programs since 1998. Lastly, Christine Gregoire (D), governor of Washington, signed two important laws into effect on Wednesday, May 9, 2007.

1. Public schools are now prohibited from teaching abstinence-only classes, although schools have the choice whether they want to teach sex education. All information must be medically and scientifically accurate.
2. Public schools must also provide information about HPV and the vaccination.

For more information on these three states, check out this full article on the Feminist Wire. They also have a link to the Mathematica Policy Research report about abstinence-only education (see my first post!).

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