The state will allow parents to decide whether their children should learn more about sexually transmitted diseases and contraceptiion than is typically taught in public schools under a bill that passed the House in a 60-55 vote Thursday.
The bill, which now goes to Gov. Beverly Perdue for her signature, schools would continue to offer sex ed that stresses abstinence, Lynn Bonner reports.
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