A State-By-State Sex Ed Primer  Did you know that 24 states
don't require sex education?  Salon's Tracy Clark-Flory reports
that New York City's new mandate that schools teach sex ed is a
move in a positive direction for people of New York, but that
there's still much work to be done nationwide in assuring that
students are receiving medically accurate, non-biased, and non-
judgmental comprehensive sex education. She writes,   You know
what comes next. Clark-Flory breaks down just how crappy things
are in the states with wonky sex ed requirements, in a sort of
Hall of Shame of misguided attempts at instilling sexual shame-
based morality. Texas, for example, is one of the worst
offenders,   Unlike students in Texas, my schoolmates and I were
lucky to have a fiercely progressive woman at the helm of the
Family and Consumer Sciences Education (ne "Home Economics")
department, and she insisted that a comprehensive sexual
education curriculum be taught to all students who passed
through the district. In a tiny town