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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.9, Code 1995, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  49.  Identify and disseminate information
  1  4 about early intervention programs for students who are at the
  1  5 greatest risk of dropping out of school, substance abuse,
  1  6 adolescent pregnancy, or suicide.
  1  7    Sec. 2.  Section 256.11, subsections 2, 3, and 4, Code
  1  8 1995, are amended to read as follows:
  1  9    2.  The kindergarten program shall include experiences
  1 10 designed to develop healthy emotional and social habits and
  1 11 growth in the language arts and communication skills, as well
  1 12 as a capacity for the completion of individual tasks, and
  1 13 protect and increase physical well-being with attention given
  1 14 to experiences relating to the development of life skills and
  1 15 human growth and development.  A kindergarten teacher shall be
  1 16 licensed to teach in kindergarten.  An accredited nonpublic
  1 17 school must meet the requirements of this subsection only if
  1 18 the nonpublic school offers a kindergarten program.
  1 19    3.  The following areas shall be taught in grades one
  1 20 through six:  English-language arts, social studies,
  1 21 mathematics, science, health, human growth and development,
  1 22 physical education, traffic safety, music, and visual art.
  1 23 The health curriculum shall include the characteristics of
  1 24 communicable diseases including acquired immune deficiency
  1 25 syndrome.  The state board as part of accreditation standards
  1 26 shall adopt curriculum definitions for implementing the
  1 27 elementary program.
  1 28    4.  The following shall be taught in grades seven and
  1 29 eight:  English-language arts; social studies; mathematics;
  1 30 science; health; human growth and development, family,
  1 31 consumer, career, and technology education; physical
  1 32 education; music; and visual art.  The health curriculum shall
  1 33 include the characteristics of sexually transmitted diseases
  1 34 and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.  The state board as
  1 35 part of accreditation standards shall adopt curriculum
  2  1 definitions for implementing the program in grades seven and
  2  2 eight.  However, this subsection shall not apply to the
  2  3 teaching of family, consumer, career, and technology education
  2  4 in nonpublic schools.
  2  5    Sec. 3.  Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph j,
  2  6 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1995, is amended to read as
  2  7 follows:
  2  8    One unit of health education which shall include personal
  2  9 health; food and nutrition; environmental health; safety and
  2 10 survival skills; consumer health; family life; human growth
  2 11 and development; substance abuse and nonuse; emotional and
  2 12 social health; health resources; and prevention and control of
  2 13 disease, including sexually transmitted diseases and acquired
  2 14 immune deficiency syndrome.
  2 15    Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  256A.4A  PARENTING SKILLS
  2 16 INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS.
  2 17    Each school district or community college that offers
  2 18 general adult education classes or courses shall periodically
  2 19 offer an instructional program in parenting skills for
  2 20 parents, guardians, prospective biological and adoptive
  2 21 parents, and foster parents.
  2 22    Sec. 5.  Section 272.31, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
  2 23 1995, is amended by striking the paragraph.
  2 24    Sec. 6.  REPEAL.  Section 279.50, Code 1995, is repealed.
  2 25    Sec. 7.  RULES.  The state board of education shall amend
  2 26 its administrative rules to eliminate references to human
  2 27 growth and development in the K-12 education program.  
  2 28                           EXPLANATION
  2 29    This bill eliminates provisions in the Code relating to
  2 30 human growth and development, including human growth and
  2 31 development provisions in the K-12 education standards; the
  2 32 requirement that a person successfully complete a semester of
  2 33 credit relating to knowledge and understanding of human growth
  2 34 and development of children and youth before receiving a
  2 35 coaching authorization; and a section of the Code that
  3  1 requires school boards to provide instruction relating to
  3  2 human growth and development, to disseminate information about
  3  3 the human growth and development curriculum to parents and
  3  4 guardians, and that require school boards and community
  3  5 colleges that offer general adult education classes to
  3  6 periodically offer an instructional program in human growth
  3  7 and development for parents, guardians, prospective biological
  3  8 and adoptive parents, and foster parents.  The bill moves to
  3  9 other sections of the Code provisions within the repealed
  3 10 section that relate to an instructional program in parenting
  3 11 skills and to information about early intervention programs.
  3 12    The bill also instructs the state board of education to
  3 13 eliminate from its administrative rules any references to
  3 14 human growth and development.  
  3 15 LSB 1659YH 76
  3 16 kh/sc/14
     
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