A Closer Look at Florida
July 2009
Collier School Board will change district’s sex ed policy
July 31, 2009, Naples Daily News
NAPLES — It’s not the curriculum, it’s the policy.
That became the debate Thursday night over whether or not the Collier County School Board should change its policy about sex education in the schools.
The current policy reads that the curriculum should address “an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy.” But a majority of board members thought that policy was too vague.
They voted 3 to 2 to revise the board’s policy. Board Chairwoman Pat Carroll and board member Steve Donovan dissented.
Watch video from the Board meeting here.
School board votes to make sex ed changes
July 30, 2009, ABC 7 WZVN-HD
COLLIER COUNTY: Sex is a topic that makes a lot of parents uncomfortable. But the Collier County School Board decided it wants to make some changes to its sex ed policy.
Sex is everywhere and Collier County teens say they learn about it all the time on the big screen.
At age 16, Kendall Wise said she has friends that are already having sex. But she says the sex education emphasis in school is a bit more conservative.
"To practice abstinence, really," she said.
Collier County talks sex education
July 30, 2009, NBC 2 News Online
COLLIER COUNTY: The Collier County School Board today will take up sex education, a touchy subject for many families.
Members will get an update on how schools go about teaching middle and high schoolers about the birds and the bees, and some may want to change the abstinence-based curriculum.
Sex and money on Collier School Board’s agenda
July 29, 2009, Naples Daily News
COLLIER COUNTY — Come back at 3 p.m. for live updates from the School Board meeting.
The Collier County School Board wants to talk about sex. Sex education, that is.
District officials are expected to present to the School Board Thursday afternoon the current sex education curriculum. The request came from the board at its June meeting after board member Richard Calabrese said the district’s policy of sex education needs to change.
HEALTHY TEENS CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED SEX EDUCATION IN RESPONSE TO CDC STUDY
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July 20, 2009
HEALTHY TEENS CAMPAIGN CALLS FOR EVIDENCE-BASED SEX EDUCATION IN RESPONSE TO CDC STUDY
Florida has 5th highest rate of new HIV infections; 6th highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation
U.S. teens get sex education, but not from parents
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - U.S. teens are getting sex education, but most are not learning about birth control from their parents, new government data showed on Thursday.
And rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases reflect this -- the annual rate of AIDS diagnoses for boys aged 15 to 19 years has nearly doubled in the past 10 years, and rates of syphilis are also up.
The numbers show that U.S. youth need better sex education, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Letter: Planned Parenthood filling education void
July 15, 2009, The Miami Herald
AMA meeting: Comprehensive sex ed said to have most impact
A report says abstinence should be one part -- but not the only one -- of teaching kids about sexual activity.
Chicago - Sex education that provides information about abstinence, condom use and other contraceptive methods is the most effective way to reduce the growing number of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted infection or become pregnant.
Chicago - Sex education that provides information about abstinence, condom use and other contraceptive methods is the most effective way to reduce the growing number of teenagers who contract a sexually transmitted infection or become pregnant.