Year 2019 - 2020

Texas State Profile

Texas’ Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in Texas have diligently worked against efforts to limit sex education across the state and are gearing up for a historic opportunity to advance comprehensive sex education for young people. While the Texas legislature was…

Virginia State Profile

Virginia’s Sex Education Snapshot While advocates have been unable to implement a total reform of sex education requirements in recent years, the new legislature makeup in both the Virginia House and Senate resulted in significant wins during Virginia’s 2020 legislative…

Washington State Profile

Washington’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have successfully advanced sex education across Washington over the past decade beginning in 2007 with the passage of the Healthy Youth Act. The Healthy Youth Act requires sex education curriculum to be medically and scientifically…

Vermont State Profile

Vermont’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in Vermont have celebrated significant successes in advancing sex education over the past seven years, particularly after community based youth and sexual health service providers established an Inclusive Sex Ed Taskforce in 2019. Their efforts…

West Virginia State Profile

West Virginia’s Sex Education Snapshot West Virginia advocates have taken significant steps to advance sex education in recent years. Despite repeated legislative efforts to limit access to reproductive heath care services, including abortion, and attempts to ban sex education, progress…

Wisconsin State Profile

Wisconsin Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have faced a continuously uphill battle in advancing Wisconsin sex education requirements since the state’s statute was revised in 2012 to no longer mandate instruction on human growth and development. However, significant advancements have been…

Wyoming State Profile

Wyoming’s Sex Education Snapshot Because Wyoming 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. While some districts such as Sheridan County…

Utah State Profile

Utah’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates in Utah have made incremental progress in advancing sex education requirements across the state over the past four years. In 2016, legislators successfully passed Senate Bill 196, sponsored by Senator Stuart Adams, which removed sex…

Alaska State Profile

Alaska’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have faced a continuously uphill battle in advancing sex education in Alaska, routinely working to oppose restrictive efforts by state legislators. In 2019, Representative George Rauscher introduced House Bill 7 in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt…

Alabama State Profile

Alabama’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates across the state have worked tirelessly to advance Alabama’s sex education requirements over the past several years. Although legislation mandating comprehensive sex education has yet to be successful, the efforts of dedicated advocates across the…

Arizona State Profile

Arizona’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have actively worked to advance sex education in Arizona and to defeat restrictive legislation over the past five years. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, schools statewide have reported having mixed success in implementing virtual…