Resolution
Dear Friends,
We need your help!
Recent update
Thirty of our Nebraska State Senators have signed a resolution which rejects the Nebraska Health Sex Education Standards and supports retaining local control over the contents of their own health standards. See this press release.
Action steps
1. The following state senators have not signed this resolution! Please contact them and ask them to sign immediately! (Legislative District=LD)
LD 6 Sen Machaela Cavanaugh (402) 471-2714 mcavanaugh@leg.ne.gov
LD 7 Sen Tony Vargas(402) 471-2721 tvargas@leg.ne.gov
LD 8 Sen Megan Hunt (402) 471-2722 mhunt@leg.ne.gov
LD 9 Sen John Cavanaugh (402) 471-2723 jcavanaugh@leg.ne.gov
LD 10 Sen Wendy DeBoer (402) 471-2718 wdeboer@leg.ne.gov
LD 11 Sen Terrell McKinney (402) 471-2612 tmckinney@leg.ne.gov
LD 12 Sen Steve Lathrop (402) 471-2623 slathrop@leg.ne.gov
LD 13 Sen Justin Wayne (402) 471-2727 jwayne@leg.ne.gov
LD 15 Sen Lynne Walz (402) 471-2625 lwalz@leg.ne.gov
LD 20 Sen John McCollister (402) 471-2622 jmccollister@leg.ne.gov
LD 24 Sen Mark Kolterman (402) 471-2756 mkolterman@leg.ne.gov
LD 26 Sen Matt Hansen (402) 471-2610 mhansen@leg.ne.gov
LD 27 Sen Anna Wishart (402) 471-2632 awishart@leg.ne.gov
LD 28 Sen Patty Pansing-Brooks (402) 471-2633 ppansingbrooks@leg.ne.gov
LD 29 Sen Eliot Bostar (402) 471-2734 ebostar@leg.ne.gov
LD 36 Sen Matt Williams (402) 471-2642 mwilliams@leg.ne.gov
LD 46 Sen Adam Morfeld (402) 471-2720 amorfeld@leg.ne.gov
LD 49 Sen Jen Day (402) 471-2725 jday@leg.ne.gov
2. Contact your local school boards and ask them to also sign this resolution. Obtain a copy with their signatures and email us at info@protectnebraskachildren.org OR mail to Protect Nebraska Children Coalition P.O. Box 1637 Kearney, NE 68848-1637.
3. We are still collecting letters from individual school boards that address the state board of education; however, we firmly believe having hundreds, even thousands, sign this resolution will send an undeniable message of unity and strength from our elected officials who represent us!
As always…
Find out when your next school board meeting is and plan to attend. Bring friends! Gather community members! Present information and your concerns that the Nebraska State Board of Education still intends to draft health sex education standards in the future (state health standards are unnecessary and are outside the legislative mandate to the Nebraska Department of Education). After the State Board of Education presented the explicit sexualized Draft #1, followed by a watered down version in Draft #2, dozens of emails secured through public records requests revealed a more complete picture – a process manipulated by a few radical activists to create scientifically and medically inaccurate standards which are out of line with the values of most Nebraskans. We cannot trust the Nebraska Department of Education under the leadership of the current board members.
Also, take the time to learn about other issues facing your local school districts, and don’t forget to thank your local school boards!
Attached are letters you can download from three different schools: Cozad, Maywood, and Thedford. What excellent sample letters you can present to your own board, asking them to make a similar, powerful stand against these standards! When they agree, please send us these letters! We will be collecting them and sharing them as well. Email us a copy at info@protectnebraskachildren.org OR mail to Protect Nebraska Children Coalition P.O. Box 1637 Kearney, NE 68848-1637.
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