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Survey: Two-thirds of Illinois public schools provide comprehensive sex education

A study of sex education in Illinois public schools found that one out of three teachers did not meet a very forgiving definition of comprehensive instruction. Only 65 percent of teachers who responded to the survey covered the four basic topics required to be rated "comprehensive." When the researchers added a widely recommended fifth topic, only 42 percent of sex education teachers passed the comprehensiveness test.

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