49-6-1301 - Family life instruction Local programs Content Review. - Tennessee Statutes

49-6-1301. Family life instruction Local programs Content Review.

(a)  Beginning with the 1991-1992 school year, if the most recent, annual data maintained by the department of health, state center for health statistics, indicate that pregnancy rates in any county exceeded nineteen and five tenths (19.5) pregnancies per one thousand (1,000) females aged fifteen (15) through seventeen (17), then every LEA within the county shall locally devise, adopt and implement a program of family life instruction in conformance with the curriculum guidelines established for such programs by the state board of education.

(b)  The locally devised and implemented program of family life education shall emphasize abstinence from sexual relations outside of marriage, the right and responsibility of a person to refuse to engage in such relations, basic moral values, as well as the obligations and consequences that arise from intimacy. The program shall also include a component that specifically addresses the nature and prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.

(c)  The locally devised and adopted program of family life instruction shall be implemented during each of the succeeding four (4) school years following the calendar year in which such data is released. If, at any time during the four-year period, any LEA within the county fails to implement a locally devised and adopted program of family life instruction in conformance with the curriculum guidelines established for such programs by the state board of education, then the LEA shall implement the complete plan of family life instruction developed by the state board pursuant to § 49-6-1302, and shall fully participate in the program of technical support and assistance established pursuant to § 49-1-205.

(d)  The LEA shall prescribe procedures to provide for the periodic review and evaluation of family life instruction and to provide for periodic public hearings and parental conferences to ensure a high level of community and parental input and support for family life instruction.

(e)  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, failure to comply with subsection (c) shall subject the LEA to the withholding of state funds by the commissioner of education.

[Acts 1989, ch. 565, § 1.]