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Broward County Public Schools staff, in response to new state law, were recommending scaling back sex ed curriculum. Board members called the proposal an overreaction.
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Broward School Board members directed Interim Superintendent Earlean Smiley to start over and develop a comprehensive sex education lesson plan that also complies with state law.
Entire chapters about birth control, the reproductive system, human anatomy and LGBTQ people would be removed from most sex ed lesson plans, according to a district draft memo called “Family Life and Human Sexuality Curriculum Matrix of Revisions 2022-2023.”
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The state Department of Education had questioned Broward schools' use of an Anti-Defamation League program called “No Place for Hate."
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On Monday, the district posted a heavily redacted version of its comprehensive sex education curriculum, cutting out entire chapters. On Wednesday, the old curriculum was back up.