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The shocking things schools are—and aren’t—teaching

Over the past couple years, several states attempted — and in some instances, succeeded — in passing legislation that brought controversial changes to school curriculums, the Huffington Post reports. For instance, under Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal’s proposed sweeping new school voucher program [1], tens of millions of Louisiana taxpayer dollars will be used to offer vouchers [2] to more than half of the state’s poor and middle-class public school students. These students can in turn use these vouchers to attend more than 120 private schools [3], including a number of small, Bible-based learning institutions that boast extreme anti-science and anti-history curriculums [4] while championing creationism. Meanwhile, several states have grappled with how to approach sex education in the classroom. A controversial bill that would have allowed Utah schools to ban sex education and discussion of homosexuality in class [5] passed the state Senate before it was eventually vetoed by Gov. Gary Herbert [6]. In the aftermath of that decision, Republican state Sen. Stuart Reid is sponsoring a bill that would require the state school board [7] to develop a sex education program for parents…

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