National Sexuality Standards for K -12 for all Public Schools

Yes, you read that correctly.  The National Sexuality Standards for K – 12 have been released.  Under Race To The Top, (RttT),  all states which have signed on to RttT will have to implement instructional materials and programs that meet these Sexuality standards in all of their public schools. {see UPDATE below}

Virginia schools will not have to comply, yet, but the only reason Virginia schools won’t have to comply with RttT is because of Governor McDonnell’s direction.  We may have to implement these standards when Governor McDonnell’s term is over.

Additionally, RttT was originally part of The Stimulus and allowed the Obama Administration to circumvent existing education law by providing funding through a different program, with funding hinging on whether states agree to adopt and implement national standards and assessments, like the National Sexuality Standards.  RttT should have expired when The Stimulus expired, but Congress has continued to fund increases in education spending through RttT, thereby allowing the Obama Administration to continue to circumvent existing education laws while punting on updating or repealing NCLB (which is the current education law).

Click in this link to read the National Sexuality Education Standards: Core Content and Skills, K–12.

UPDATE:

Under Race to the Top states were expected to agree to adopt and implement common K – 12 standards and assessments.  In the last several months, the US Dept of Ed began issuing waivers from NCLB’s accountability requirements to states or school districts which agreed to adopt and implement the national K – 12 standards and assessments. Just about every state in the country has agreed to adopt the common, National standards and assessments.   Virginia is one of the few holdouts.

Common standards, known as the Common Core Standards, have been developed and issued for Math and English.  Common assessments are currently being developed for Math and English.  A framework for common Science Standards has been issued, with work on the grade level / subject specific standards ongoing.

The National Sexuality Education Standards certainly seem to fall under that “common standards and assessments” umbrella, but we have been unable to find anything which specifically states that the US Dept of Ed will require participating states to adopt and implement these standards.