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Board opens hearing on updated 2025 Michigan Model HIV/STI unit for middle school
Summary
The East Lansing School District board opened a public hearing Feb. 23 on a recommendation to adopt the revised 2025 Michigan Model HIV and other STI unit for grades 7–8; Ann Scott presented the proposed three‑lesson unit and clarified grade placement and teaching responsibilities. No public comment was offered and no vote was taken.
The East Lansing School District board on Feb. 23 opened a public hearing on a recommendation from the district’s Sex Education Advisory Board to adopt the revised 2025 Michigan Model HIV and other sexually transmitted infection unit for seventh‑ and eighth‑grade students. Ann Scott presented the advisory board’s review and proposal.
Scott told the board the state’s recent updates consolidated health standards into the Michigan Model and that the updated middle‑school unit would be reduced to three core lessons that the district already uses in part. "The updated Michigan model HIV and other STI unit is including three lessons that we currently already use," she said, noting the lessons would be updated with more current statistics and guidance on prevention, treatment and screening and delivered in a digital format.
The proposal does not represent a broad shift in district practice, Scott said: some prior content has been moved into social‑emotional learning units, and the recommendation focuses on bringing HIV/STI content up to date rather than adding new topics. A district official asked about pregnancy prevention at the middle‑school level; Scott clarified that sixth grade includes more comprehensive sexual health instruction (including pregnancy prevention and STI/HIV topics taught in health/PE), while seventh and eighth grade HIV/STI instruction occurs in science classrooms per state law, and broader sexual health instruction resumes in grades 9–12.
The board opened and then closed the public comment portion of the hearing with no speakers. The presentation and questions provided the board with background and clarifications; the transcript records this as an opening public hearing, and no action or final vote on adoption was recorded at the Feb. 23 meeting.
