sex education

Community program leaders and and teens say it's a lot more difficult to navigate nuanced, emotionally complex issues without in-person interaction and seeing faces.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news New Jersey doesn’t do a good job of teaching sex education in its schools, according to a health education advocacy group. Thrive New Jersey, a coalition of health agencies and advocacy groups in the state, gave New Jersey a grade of C, in its recently released report card detailing how sexual health and sexuality are taught in the schools. N...

A sexuality education program for kindergarteners and first graders is planned for spring at Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Montclair on Church Street.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news How should Montclair be teaching its students about health and sexuality? The school district is in the process of overhauling its curriculum for health and sexual education. As part of that process, the district hosted a “think tank” at the George Inness Annex Thursday night, Nov. 30. Th...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair’s schools have unveiled a draft version of a family life and sexuality curriculum that will be implemented on a trial basis this fall. Parents have been petitioning for an updated sex education curriculum in the Montclair schools for several years and complaining that their children, depending on what schools they attended, received little to no educ

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The search for a permanent superintendent continues, but two of the positions that had long been open have been filled. The Board of Education discussed both the superintendent search and the new hires at its meeting on Monday night...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news The controversy over an abstinence-leaning sexual health presentation for middle school students continued at the May 3 Board of Education meeting, in which voices remained calm but feelings ran high. Representa...