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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’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’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 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’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’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’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’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’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…
Arkansas’ Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have worked diligently to advance sex education in Arkansas, most recently cumulating in the introduction of Senate Bill 304. Known as the Arkansas Healthy Lifestyle Education Act, the bill sought to require curriculum to include…
California’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have celebrated significant success in advancing sex education in California, largely due to the passage of the California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA) in 2015, along with an equivalent version for charter schools that passed in…
Florida’s Sex Education Snapshot Advocates have diligently worked to advance sex education in Florida over recent years, their most recent efforts cumulating in the introduction of a series of progressive bills (House Bill 703, Senate Bill 926, and Senate Bill…
