This Thursday March 15th, the Colorado Senate Education Committee will consider HB 1292, "Content Standards for Sexuality Education" at their 1:30 p.m. meeting. HB 1292 would require school districts, family resource centers, and teen pregnancy prevention programs that offer instruction regarding human sexuality to adopt science-based content standards for such instruction. Specifies the minimum requirements for a school district curriculum concerning human sexuality. A copy of the bill can be found at the Colorado Legislature's Website.

Please take a moment to call each of the Senate Education Committee members TODAY and ask them to vote 'Yes' on HB1292. It only takes three minutes, really! - First call and ask for your Senator. Then, tell her or her aide: 1) your name; 2) that you are contacting her because she is a member of the Senate Education Committee; 3) that you support HB1292 regarding the content of sexuality education; 4)that you support cultural proficiency and linguistic appropriateness; 5) Your address and phone number; 6) (optional) Why you support HB1292. That's it!

Parents, teens, and medical professionals agree that young people must learn about both abstinence and factual, science-based prevention methods for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. (With One Voice 2007 ) Given that the teen birth rate in the Latino community of Colorado is four times the rate for White teenagers and more than twice the rate for African-Americans (www.statehealthfacts.org) This health disparity helps to demonstrate why culturally proficient and linguistically appropriate sex education is needed in Colorado.