Some Texas Schools Modify Sex Education

August 23, 2010

by Nathan Bernier
August 23, 2010

Nathan Bernier, KUT Radio

Students are heading back to school this week, and some of them will begin learning about the birds and the bees. The Texas Education Code requires that abstinence be the focus of any sex education curriculum — but as Nathan Bernier of KUT News reports, there are some changes this year to how sex ed is being taught.

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This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune at http://trib.it/9yS2Wk.

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