California Healthy Youth Act

7/13/19
 
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from California Dept of Education,
7/10/19:

The California Healthy Youth Act, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2016, requires school districts throughout the state to provide students with comprehensive sexual health education, along with information about HIV prevention, at least once in high school and once in middle school.

The state legislation also allows districts to offer age-appropriate sexual health education in earlier grades if they choose to do so. But parents can opt out of sex education, and local districts get to determine their own curriculum.

Curriculum frameworks provide guidance to educators, parents, and publishers, to support implementing California content standards.

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