Too few kids get sex ed: Stringer

CITY SCHOOLS are falling short on teaching sex education to students, according to a new report by Controller Scott Stringer.

Stringer found that 43% of eighth-graders haven’t completed a semester of health education in middle school, which is supposed to include sex ed.

State law requires students receive at least one semester of health education in middle school and in high school. It does not specify requirements for sex ed, but city officials directed in 2011 that the curriculum include sexual health.

The report found 12% of combined middle and high schools, and 28% of freestanding middle schools, have no teacher assigned to teach health at all.