Existing law requires each school district to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, recieve comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education at least once in middle school or junior high school and at least one in high school. This instruction includes, among other things, instruction and materials to provide pupils with knowledge and skills they need to form healthy relationships, as specified.
This bill would additionally require each public middle school and each public junior high school, other than a charter school, to provide all of the pupils enrolled in that school with instruction on the importance of healthy relationships in accordance with specified criteria. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.