Does anyone really want Planned Parenthood involved in sex education in our public schools?

10/8/2010

The Austin Independent School District is partnering with Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region and LifeWorks under a new grant announced last week to provide comprehensive sex education in Austin schools. The grant, worth $2.9 million over five years, was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Adol­es­cent Health and will allow LifeWorks and Planned Par­ent­hood to offer "abstinence-plus" sex education to kids in as many as 15 schools. The grant requires that an evaluator determine the program's efficacy in contrast with the sex Ed curriculum currently used in the public schools. Texas State University health education professor David Wiley, one of the authors of the Texas Freedom Network's groundbreaking review last year of sex education across Texas, will serve as the project's grant evaluator. – Jordan Smith