HB786:

Instructional material and related academic activities; Board of Education to establish policy.

Bill Summary:

Board of Education; policy on certain instructional
material and related academic activities; annual parental notification;
replacement or alternative material and activities; local compliance.
Requires the Board of Education to establish, and each local school
board to comply with, a policy to require each public elementary
or secondary school to (i) annually notify the parent of any student
enrolled in a class or course in which the instructional material
or related academic activities includes or may include sexually explicit
content, as defined in the bill, or content that depicts sexual misconduct,
as defined in the bill; (ii) permit the parent of any student to
review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content
or content that depicts sexual misconduct, upon request; and (iii)
provide, as a replacement or an alternative to instructional material
and related academic activities that include sexually explicit content
or content that depicts sexual misconduct, instructional material
and related academic activities that do not include sexually explicit
content or content that depicts sexual misconduct to any student
whose parent so requests.