Policy & Advocacy
As we learn more as a society about sex, gender, relationships, and overall health,
our sex education policies and standards should evolve as well. We believe in continued advocacy and policy tracking to ensure students receive the sex ed they deserve.
Our Current Policy Priorities
Our policy priorities center clarifying language and ensuring high quality, honest standards for Minnesota students' sex education in schools.
Currently, we are:
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Advocating for Senate File 1048 which establishes clearer and more inclusive language for sex education​​
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We are working to amend MN Statute 121A.23 which ​defines the state required programs for STI prevention education
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- Defending statewide health education standards by fighting against House File 65
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This bill is seeking to repeal the statewide health standards for K-12 schools and would make Minnesota one of the only states without health education standards ​​
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Encouraging public engagement with the health education standards development process
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We are supporting accurate, inclusive, and accessible standards in the development of statewide health education standards
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Policy and Implementation Tracking
A major challenge for any educational policy rests in its implementation. For sex education, several key groups are the most attune to changes in laws or standards: teachers, students, and parents.
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That's why we focus our efforts on listening to these communities so we can support implementation efforts through community education, teacher training, and advocacy.