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This bill requires the Department of Education to develop model policies for ensuring parental notification of sexually explicit content in the school curriculum and requires boards of education to provide parental notification of sexually explicit content in the school curriculum. Under the bill, the Department of Education is required to develop and make available to each board of education model policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content, and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to: (1) ensuring parental notification prior to a student's exposure to sexually explicit content in school curriculum; (2) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (3) permitting the parent or guardian of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional materials and related academic activities to any student whose parent requests those alternatives. The bill also directs each board of education to adopt policies that are consistent with, but may be more comprehensive than, the model policies developed by the department. The provisions of the bill will not be construed to provide for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools.

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Beth Sawyer (R)*,  John Catalano (R),  Greg McGuckin (R), 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 03/07/2022)

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