43% of City Students Not Getting Required Sex Ed Courses, Comptroller Says
More than 40 percent of the city’s middle and high school students are not getting the sex education required by the state, according to a report released on Thursday by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
The findings come as the rate of sexually transmitted infections among city teenagers is slightly rising, especially in the city's poorest neighborhoods. Previously, the rates had been in decline for four years, according to the city's Health Department.
For those students in the 13 to 19 age range in New York City, the rate of gonorrhea infection in 2015 rose to 350 cases per 100,000, up from 315 cases per 100,000 in 2014. The infection rate of chlamydia among the same age bracket was 2,195 cases per 100,000 in 2015, which was also a slight increase from the year before. . .