Q&A
Recent updates to the sex education curriculum in NYC schools
1:54:09
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Council Member Hanif asks about the most recent updates to the sex education curriculum. DOE representatives provide information on recent curriculum revisions and clarify a point about student participation.
- The HIV curriculum, 'Growing Up and Staying Safe', was updated and launched in fall 2023.
- This curriculum covers more than just HIV science, including a holistic approach to student wellness.
- Information on the last update of other recommended sexual health curricula was not immediately available.
- A clarification was made that schools reporting 0% compliance doesn't necessarily mean students receive no lessons, but rather that not all students receive all lessons.
Shahana K. Hanif
1:54:09
And then, when was the current sex ed curriculum most recently updated?
Narrator in Shown Video
1:54:14
So the HIV curriculum, growing up and staying safe, which encompasses, as I said, more than just what we might think of traditionally as the science of HIV, but really, holistic sense of of of wellness around, student health, that was just launched this past year.
1:54:29
We just updated that, and and rolled it out last fall in 2023.
1:54:34
The other recommended, sexual health curricula, I would have to look up the exact year that they were last updated, but I can get that for you.
1:54:46
0%.
Despina Zaharakis
1:54:46
I don't know what that means.
Quadira Coles
1:54:52
Thank you.
Despina Zaharakis
1:54:53
I I actually have the, languages, the DOE languages.
1:54:57
Yeah.
Rita Joseph
1:54:58
They may not wanna
Despina Zaharakis
1:54:59
Thank you.
1:55:00
Of course.
1:55:01
It's Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Chinese, Arabic, Bangladeshi, Urdu, Korean, Russian, and English.
1:55:17
Korean, Russian, and Russian.
1:55:20
English.
Narrator in Shown Video
1:55:23
And we also have one follow-up, about the the data point on the the 0% of students.
1:55:30
So just want to clarify that that's not necessarily students getting no lessons.
1:55:33
That's the schools that are not giving all the lessons to all the students.
1:55:40
So just wanted to clarify that.
Despina Zaharakis
1:55:42
Can can you repeat it to me,
