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In 2019, Representative Brian Sims introduced House Bill 1586 in an effort to require all schools to provide inclusive, medically accurate, and evidence-based sex education that, among other topics, would have required educators to provide instruction on contraceptives, abstinence, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), affirmative consent ...
Feb 12, 2021 · Schools in Pennsylvania are not required to teach sex education. However, curriculum is required to include instruction on STDs, including HIV. o Curriculum is not required to be comprehensive. o Curriculum must stress abstinence. Curriculum is not required to include instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Sex education is not currently mandated in Pennsylvania. Schools that do teach sex education must emphasize abstinence. Because Pennsylvania schools are not required to provide sex education to students, school districts are left to decide what type of sex education–if any at all–they provide to youth.
Planned Parenthood and voters agree that young people want and need comprehensive sex education. This should include information about abstinence, as well as information about healthy relationships, contraception, consent, and preventing STDs.
Abstinence is typically required, and random urine checks are common. If a defendant suc-cessfully completes the program, charges may be dropped or a sentence suspended. Failure to comply with the re-quirements of the court will usually result in incarceration. As noted, the latest gures indicate that more than.
Jan 25, 2017 · Instead of relying on the Pennsylvania Department of Education to set vague guidelines, Pennsylvania’s General Assembly should amend the Public School Code of 1949 (P.L.30, No.14) by...
The school district may omit instruction in the elementary grades on transmission of disease through sexual activity. Programs discussing transmission through sexual activity must stress that abstinence from sexual activity is the only completely reliable means of preventing sexual transmission.
