If you’re a regular visitor to TFN Insider, you know that sound science is under siege in Texas. We have one of the highest teen birthrates in the country, but extremists demand that public schools teach abstinence-only in sexuality education classes. Creationists on the State Board of Education are trying to dumb down the public […]
We didn’t have to wait long to start taking fire from right-wingers upset by the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund’s new report Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools. Just five hours after we released the report, TFN staffers received an e-mail blast from right-wing gadfly Donna Garner. You might remember Garner. […]
New Study: Texas Failing Families, Teens on Sexuality Education Mistruths, Fear, Ignorance Characterize Sex Ed Amid High Teen Birth, STD Rates FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2009 AUSTIN – Texas gets more federal abstinence funding than any other state and has one of the highest teen birthrates in the nation, but an extensive new study […]
Today the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund released a major new study detailing how public schools in our state teach young people about sexuality and health. And the news is not good. Our new report — Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools — conclusively demonstrates that Texas is failing families and students when […]
Teaching young people about sexuality and health should be serious business. But you wouldn’t know that from the materials used in many Texas classrooms… Get a sneak peek at a video previewing the release of a new Texas Freedom Network Education Fund report on sexuality education in Texas public schools. (The scene in the video […]
