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Iowa board adopts Chapter 12 rules clarifying human growth instruction for grades 5–8
Summary
The State Board of Education voted to adopt Department of Education rules implementing Senate File 175, clarifying that human growth and development content will be required in both fifth and sixth grades and both seventh and eighth grades; the change follows public comment and technical edits to align the rule text with statute.
The Iowa State Board of Education on Jan. 14 approved adopted-and-filed amendments to Chapter 12 that implement last year’s Senate File 175 changes to human growth and development instruction.
Department rules coordinator Thomas Mayes told the board that public comment prompted the department to read the statute’s grade bands as inclusive — ‘‘fifth and sixth’’ and ‘‘seventh and eighth’’ — rather than the alternative reading that would…
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