The Texas State Board of Education has made a decison about what is appropriate material for public school textbooks in Texas.
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The board is meeting in Austin and declined to give preliminary approval to some health instruction manuals for middle school and high school students.
The manuals covered a variety of topics, but it was sections on gender identity, contraception and self-harm that prompted the refusal.
School districts across the state must now decide on their own how to address the health curriculum standards that were approved by the state board a year ago.
That vote approved, among other things, lessons on birth control other than abstinence-only.
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