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The National Education Association promotes sex education as a necessary part of a national eduction curriculum.
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The National Education ASsociation called for teacher training programs in sexuality education.
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Chicago became the first major city to implement sex education for high schools.
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Congress passed the Chamberlain-Kahn Act, which allocated money to educate soldiers about syphillis and gonnerhea. During this time, Americans began to view sex ed as a public health issue.
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U.S. Public Health Service publishes the manual on sex education in high school.
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The U.S. Public Health Service strongly advocated sexuality education in schools, labeling it an "urgent need"
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. is adopted as the new name for the Birth Control Federation of America.
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The American School Health Association launched a nationwide program in family life education.
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American Medical Association in conjunction with the NEA, published 5 pamphlets that were commonly referred to as "the sex education series" for schools.
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The U.S. office of Education gave NYU a grant to develop gradute programs for training sex-education teaches.
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Congress passed Adolescent Family Life Act, funding programs to promote sexual abstinence before marriage.
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Sexuality education was being taught within the context of more comprehensive family life education prgrams or human growth and development courses. Such an approach emphasized not only reproduction, but also the importance of self-esteem, responsibility and decision making.
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U.S. Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop issued a report calling for comprehensive AIDS and sexuality education in public schools, beginning as early as the 3rd grade.
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SIECUS convened the National Guidlelines Task Force, a panel of experts that constructed a framework within which local communities could design effective curricula and/or evaluate existing programs.
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Congress attached a provision to welfare legislation tha established a federal program to exclusively fund abstinence-only programs.
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President Clinton and the man investigating his behavior provide Americans with months of teachable moments about sexuality. Viagra a drug for treating erectile dysfunction, explodes on the market.
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The U.S. Surgeon General releases a call to action to promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior a research based call for a mature national conversation about sexuality and more sexuality education.
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas sodomy law and Federal abstinence-only funding is increased by 15 million.
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25 states have rejected federal funding for abstinence-only programs based on evaluations that suggest that they don't have an impact on behavior.
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Congress funds the Personal Responsibility Education Program, which provides 75 million annually for evidence-based, medically accurate age appropriate programs to educate adolescents about both abstinence and contraception in order to prevent unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
