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For 11 years, students in California's San Ysidro School District have despite the county's high teen pregnancy rate. School officials say that their students aren't getting lessons on how to protect against unintended pregnancy and STDs "because there are so many [other] things that need to be presented." The school board will take up the issue this month and students may start getting sex education as early as March.

Later this year, the Florida state legislature will , a measure that would require schools in the state to offer students a more comprehensive curriculum.

Georgia's Clark County school board from a longstanding policy of abstinence-only-until-marriage instruction in local schools. The community has , and parenting teens addressed the school board, asking for a comprehensive curriculum.

A freshman biology unit entitled "Meiosis/Reproduction" at Maine South High School has because it discusses contracetpion. Located in Park Ridge, Illinois, the school has been targeted by the Illinois Family Institute of Glen Ellyn, an organization committed to "promote and defend biblical truths."

Several high schoolers from Morris Heights in The Bronx before the New York City Council and called for sex ed to be mandatory feature of classroom education. Of the five New York City boroughs, The Bronx has the highest teen pregnancy rate. The students began agitating for comprehensive sex ed in 2006 as middle schoolers all with parenting friends.

The Union County school board in North Carolina to its abstinence-only-until-marriage programming:

In addition, parents can request that their eighth-graders study an alternative curriculum that omits lessons on contraceptives. In its place, these students would receive a lesson titled "101 Ways to Say No."

Finally, South Carolina's Batesburg-Leesville school district is considering in adopting the abstinence-only-until-marriage program Worth the Wait.