Posted on 4:32 pm, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Tags: department of education, kathryn matayoshi, pono choices, ronn nozie, sexual education
MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Education has released a report that announces actions it is taking based on a panel review of Pono Choices, a middle-school sexual health education curriculum. The report entitled, Implementing Sexual Health Education: Background and Actions for Improvement, details 11 specific recommendations to improve the curriculum and a dozen internal […]
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Posted on 2:03 am, Monday, December 16, 2013. Tags: department of education, leila hayashida, pono choices
MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Education is lifting the hold on its sexual education curriculum. A review of Pono Choices confirmed the curriculum is medically accurate, appropriate and aligned with health education, state law and DOE policy. Pono Choices was put on hold last month pending a review of curriculum concerns brought to the […]
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Posted on 2:51 am, Sunday, December 1, 2013. Tags: department of education, kelly roberts, leila hayashida, pono choices, sex education
MEDIA RELEASE The state Department of Education will place Pono Choices implementation on hold as it conducts another review of the pilot curriculum. Pono Choices is a medically accurate teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention program funded by the federal Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) and developed by the University of Hawaii at […]
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