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- Wisconsin Rejects U.S. Funds For Education on Abstinence. Samuels, Christina A. // Education Week;3/14/2007, Vol. 26 Issue 27, p19
The article reports that Wisconsin has rejected federal funding for abstinence education due to limitations it would impose on the discussion of contraception and sexually transmitted disease. Democratic party Governor Jim Doyle agrees that abstinence should be taught in public schools, but does...
- Hawaii clergy attack liberal sex education. // Advocate;4/11/73, Issue 109, p11
Reports that members of the Coalition of Clergy and Laity attacked the State Department of Health's liberal stand on sex education in Hawaii in 1973.
- Trying to say `sex' in Polish. Nagorski, Andrew // Newsweek;6/21/93, Vol. 121 Issue 25, p44
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- APHA to CDC: `Expert' panels inhibit AIDS education efforts. // Nation's Health;Mar93, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p7
Reports that public health officials told the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that expert panels who review the content of federally-funded AIDS education programs should be scrapped. `Offensiveness standard' for the `obscenity' test dropped by CDC; Contention that AIDS...
- APHA, others join to defeat sex education amendments. // Nation's Health;Apr94, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p4
Reports on the joined efforts of American organizations to oppose United States Representative John Doolittle's amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Stress on abstinence as a disease prevention tool; Barring of homosexuality; `Second-degree' amendment by Representative...
- Blair's attempts to 'modernize' sex education backfire. MacLeod, Alexander // Christian Science Monitor;2/2/2000, Vol. 92 Issue 49, p7
Reports on criticism of Great Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair's plan to change sex education.
- Kan. State Board Primaries Find Republicans Divided. Tonn, Jessica L. // Education Week;7/26/2006, Vol. 25 Issue 43, p1
The article focuses on a primary election, which could change the makeup of the Kansas state board of education. The Kansas state board of education has garnered national attention concerning its battles over evolution and sex education in the public schools. The article discusses the split...
- NEWSFRONT: UTAH. // Advocate;1/19/88, Issue 490, p27
Reports that the Utah Textbook Commission has voted to delete any mention of homosexuality and contraception from its philosophy statement on sex education. Text of the statement adopted.
- The calm after the storm. Bull, Chris // Advocate;05/25/99, Issue 786, p76
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