This Wednesday, the Senate Education Committee is again considering approval of a bill to require school districts to put their sex education material online for easy parental access. The same bill, SB 217, failed in March, even with the support of the committee chair Senator Connie Leyva (D-San Bernardino). The…
Read More Senate Democrats’ commitment to transparency will be put to the test by a new bill introduced at the state capitol requiring school districts to post sex education lessons online for easy parent access. A similar bill was heard in the Senate Education Committee last year, SB 673, but was rejected…
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Earlier this year, California’s Senate Education Committee rejected a bill to give parents easier access to the state’s sex education curriculum. Senator Leyva, the committee chair, said she rejected SB 673 over its changes to the state’s opt-out policy, but she supported “100 percent” the bill’s requirement to put sex…
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Parental rights and faith-based organizations from around California will be gathering at the state capitol next week to support a bill that prevents elementary schools from hiding comprehensive sex education lessons from parents. Senator Mike Morrell authored the SB 673 after hearing that some schools were disrespecting parental rights by…
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Despite what the California Department of Education (CDE) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have been telling school districts, parents do have the right to opt their children out of sex education and health lessons on gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) explained…
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Although many Californians disagree about when and what our public schools should teach kids about sex, most agree schools should respect the right of parents to oversee the teaching of this sensitive subject. California’s controversial sex education law, “The Healthy Youth Act,” reflects this sentiment by promising parents a “streamlined…
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Parents throughout California are planning another sex-ed sit out this week to protest the sexualization of their children in the state’s public schools. Leaders with Alliance to Protect Children (ATPC) are not only calling on parents to pull their kids out of school this Thursday, September 19, but to stage…
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Last Wednesday was the third time this year parents with Informed Parents of California (IPOC) traveled to Sacramento to protest the pornographic, immoral, and age inappropriate content within proposed Department of Education K-12 health curriculum guidelines. But no matter what adjectives they used to describe the sexual debauchery being promoted,…
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Rally and Hearing at the California Department of Education May 8 Parents with Informed Parents of California (IPOC) feel physically sick to their stomachs after seeing the sexually explicit health curriculum California State Board of Education plans to approve next week. The California Family Council will join hundreds of these…
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A sex-ed transparency bill, authored by Senator Mike Morrell, is heading to the Senate Education Committee next week, yet its real author is first-time, citizen legislator Denise Pursche. This bay-area mother of three never intended to write a bill when she asked Mt. Diablo Unified School District for the sexuality…
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