After recently declining federal and state funding for abstinence-only sex education in favor of more comprehensive programs, New York’s Department of Education is standardizing its program at all city high schools by recommending a “research-based” curriculum called Reducing the Risk.
Unlike the abstinence-only programs which New York state has rejected, Reducing the Risk is designed to encourage students to delay sexual activity while at the same time providing information about contraception and disease prevention.
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