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South Dakota State of Sex Ed Sex education is not required, nor is HIV/STI education. No medical accuracy or age-appropriate requirements. Must stress sexual abstinence via “character development instruction,” but no state-level laws on any other aspects of sex education…
South Carolina State of Sex Ed Sex education is required. No medical accuracy requirement but must be age-appropriate. Must include HIV/STIs and some healthy relationships education, but not required to include consent. Abstinence must be strongly emphasized and, even though…
Rhode Island State of Sex Ed Sex education is required. Must be evidence-based, age-appropriate, medically accurate, and culturally responsive. Must include instruction on HIV/STIs, SOGI, contraception, consent, and dating violence education. State health standards are required, but do not include…
Pennsylvania State of Sex Ed Sex education is not required, but age-appropriate HIV/STI education is. No medical accuracy requirement. Some healthy relationships education is required, but not consent. HIV/STI education must stress abstinence and is not required to include instruction…
Oregon State of Sex Ed Sex education is required and each school district must provide human sexuality education courses K-12th grade that follows the developed standards. Instruction and material must be age appropriate, medically accurate, not shame or fear based,…
North Dakota State of Sex Ed Sex education is required, but abstinence must be stressed. North Dakota schools also must show a fetal development video in family life education, in line with the growing “Baby Olivia” trend. No age appropriate…
Ohio State of Sex Ed Health education that covers sexually transmitted infection education, child sexual abuse and assault prevention education, and dating violence education is required. Abstinence must be stressed, and anything beyond that is not required to be taught…
North Carolina State of Sex Ed Sex education, also known as “reproductive health education” is required to be taught in North Carolina schools. Curriculum must stress abstinence but also instruct on contraception, STI prevention, healthy relationships, and more. Unfortunately, curriculum…
Nevada State of Sex Ed Sex education and HIV/STI education are required, but schools must follow an opt-in policy. State standards require that content must be age appropriate, culturally responsive, and HIV education must be evidence based. Instruction must include…
New York State of Sex Ed In New York, sex education is not required, but HIV/AIDS education is. Education on HIV must be age-appropriate, but is not mandated to be evidence-based, medically accurate, or culturally appropriate. Abstinence must be stressed.…
Michigan State of Sex Ed Sex education is not required, but instruction on HIV/AIDS must be provided at least once a year at every school level- required to be age appropriate and medically accurate. Each school district that offers sex…
Minnesota State of Sex Ed Sex education is required by proxy. Minnesota requires health education standards to be followed and are currently being revised. Current standards are required to be appropriate for grade level, technically accurate, and cover HIV, HPV,…
