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District committee recommends CTE health science materials after medical review; one video excluded
Summary
A district committee that included medical professionals recommended approval of career and technical education (CTE) health science instructional materials after updates for current medical terminology; one video was excluded for perceived inaccuracy.
The Cache County School District presented its CTE health science curriculum review to the board, reporting that a committee of parents, teachers and medical professionals reviewed materials for several courses and recommended approval with minor changes.
Britney Foster summarized the committee's work, saying the courses under review include Health Science, Medical Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology and Emergency Medical Response — courses that feed students into health-field pathways such as CNAs and further CTE coursework. Foster said the committee included parents, teachers and local medical professionals who checked materials for compliance with law and medical accuracy.
Foster told the board that the district presented county and state public-health data — including Bear River Health Department figures and 2022 adolescent birth-rate data — as context for the curriculum. She said, "we are below the state average" in adolescent birth rates and that local STD rates (chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis) were also below the state average, though gonorrhea showed a multi-year increase in the county data.
Committee members suggested edits to update medical terminology (for example, referencing "uterine tubes" where appropriate) and to clarify statements about underreporting of chlamydia. Foster said the committee recommended approval of the materials except for one video that medical reviewers judged not medically accurate; that video was removed from the proposed folder.
Board members asked about committee membership; Foster said the medical professionals are community parents, including a physician-assistant in an OBGYN-type practice and an anesthesiologist, plus a parent familiar with reproductive-system topics. The presenter said the district would add the committee roster to meeting materials and could return with further detail on which AP classes use the title and the instructional unit placement if the board requested it.
Foster said final approval would be presented as a recommendation to the board after the committee's edits and that staff would update materials for accuracy before adoption.
