Arizona sex education falls short

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Arizona ranks third worst in the nation when it comes to comprehensive sex education curriculum, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016 School Health Profile. The state does not have a law that requires schools to teach sex education or sexually transmitted disease education, but it does mandate that any sex ed…

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Sexual assault kit funding and testing in Arizona

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“These kits are representing each survivor.” Those words from Ilse Knecht, director of policy and advocacy for the Joyful Heart Foundation, explain the push to test long-stored and long-ignored sexual assault kits across the nation. More than 50 percent of the 6,424 previously untested sexual assault kits collecting dust across the state of Arizona have…

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