Media contact

If you're a reporter working on a story about the Healthy Youth Act, we can provide facts, current research, and expert commentary from our coalition members. Our media contact is Jamie Klufts, who can be reached by email at [email protected].

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Press coverage highlights

• "Advocates believe Massachusetts may finally set sex education standards", GBH News, June 23, 2023
• "Governor Healey Leading New Push For Sex Education Updates", WBZ News Radio 1030, June 22, 2023
• "Healey’s sex education plan would bypass Legislature", Boston.com, June 22, 2023
• "Sex ed gets an update in state’s new curriculum framework", Commonwealth Magazine, June 21, 2023
• "Gov. Healey leading new push for sex ed updates", Spectrum News, June 21, 2023
• "Healey-Driscoll Administration Proposes Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Curriculum Framework", Massachusetts Executive Office of Education, June 21, 2023
• "Accelerating LGBTQ health research during a ‘tumultuous year’", Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, June 15, 2023
• "Healey leading push for sex education updates through Board of Education", NBC Boston, June 21, 2023
• "State moves to bring sex education out of the ‘90", Commonwealth Magazine, June 6, 2023
• "The push is back on to redefine sex ed in Mass. Here’s what that would look like.", Boston.com, June 3, 2023
• "Students Rally At Mass. State House To Push Bill To Reform Sex Education", WBZ News Radio 1030, May 30, 2023
• "Shifting landscape may finally lift sex education bill, cosponsor says", The Boston Globe, May 30, 2023
• "Bill Pushes for Inclusive, and Consistent, Sex Education in Mass. Schools", NBC Boston, May 30, 2023
• "Supporters of sex ed bill say it's time for Massachusetts to act", GBH News, May 30, 2023
• "Bill Pushes for Inclusive, and Consistent, Sex Education in Mass. Schools", New England Cable News, May 30, 2023
• "New CDC data highlights the importance of passing the Healthy Youth Act in Massachusetts", Boston University School of Public Health Viewpoint, 2023
• "The 12-year push for modern sex education", The Sun Chronicle, 2023
• "Mass. can do a better job on sex and relationship education", Commonwealth Magazine, 2023
• "Advocates say it's time MA House passes comprehensive sex ed bill," Wicked Local, July 15, 2022
• "What sex education is required in Massachusetts?" Mass Live, July 5, 2022
• "If Only Supreme Court Justices Had Better Sex Ed" WBUR, June 24, 2022
• "Massachusetts Can Lead in Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth" CommonWealth Magazine, June 16, 2022
• "Commission on LGBTQ Youth urges Massachusetts to increase sex ed in schools," Mass Live, June 14, 2022
• "For Mass. Democrats, a troubling gap between party platform and practice" CommonWealth Magazine, June 3, 2022
• "Proposed Curriculum Isn't Sexualizing Kids, Mass GOP Is," Boston Globe, May 31, 2022
• "Lawmakers need to get real about sex ed," The Boston Globe, September 23, 2021.
• Letter to the Editor: "In support of the Healthy Youth Act," Dorchester Reporter, May 6, 2021
• "Lowell rep playing key role in push to pass sex-ed bill," the Sun, April 21, 2021
• "Sex ed advocates take efforts into second decade," WWLP News 22/State House News Service, March 30, 2021
• "Recalibrating 'the talk:' The decade-long debate on sex education in the Massachusetts classroom," Worcester Telegram, March 30, 2020
• Letter to the editor: "State should back Healthy Youth Act," the Sun Chronicle, February 24, 2021
• "Opinion: Sex education in Massachusetts needs to be inclusive and more informative," Taunton Daily Gazette, February 24, 2021​

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