New York City is spending $203,000 on a new program that aims to standardize the sex education received by middle schoolers and high school students, the New York Post reports (nypost.com, 3/16).
Since January, the Health Smart program has trained teachers from 44 of the city’s 590 schools with middle-grade students, while 120 of the system’s high schools have sent teachers for training. Officials expect the new curriculum to be fully implemented by June 2009.
The new curriculum includes lessons on nutrition, physical activity, birth control and sexually transmitted infections. According to the article, schools under the Health Smart program would be required to provide middle school and high school students with six lessons focused specifically on HIV/AIDS each year. However, the Post reports that Health Smart is not yet mandatory, and no system has yet been put in place to monitor which schools are teaching the program.
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