Outline of the state of Florida
State
Florida
Required

Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—ES

Category
Health Education K-12 Curriculum—ES

State law requires elementary HE curriculum.

Florida Statutes 1003.41 Next Generation Sunshine State Standard.

(e) Visual and performing arts, physical education, health, and foreign language Standard must establish specific curricular content and include distinct grade level expectations for the core content knowledge and skills that a student is expected to have acquired by each individual grade level from kindergarten through grade 5. The Standard for grades 6 through 12 may be organized by grade clusters of more than one grade level.

Policy Type
Statute

Florida Statutes 1003.42 Required instruction.

(2) Members of the instructional staff of the public schools, subject to the rules of the State Board of Education and the district school board, shall teach efficiently and faithfully, using the books and materials required that meet the highest Standard for professionalism and historical accuracy, following the prescribed courses of study, and * (n) Comprehensive health education that addresses concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; Internet safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse. The health education curriculum for students in grades 7 through 12 shall include a teen dating violence and abuse component that includes, but is not limited to, the definition of dating violence and abuse, the warning signs of dating violence and abusive behavior, the characteristics of healthy relationships, measures to prevent and stop dating violence and abuse, and community resources available to victims of dating violence and abuse.

Policy Type
Statute