Fort Worth ISD drops sex ed despite $2.6 million purchase of instruction materials in April

Teneha High School students fill in worksheets for a sex ed course in East Texas on Nov. 11, 2022. (Credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune)

Fort Worth ISD students will not take sex education this school year after the superintendent told parents she is scrapping plans to adopt a controversial curriculum that the district appears to have purchased last year for nearly $2.6 million.

Superintendent Angélica Ramsey made the announcement at the end of her weekly newsletter sent Jan. 27. She told parents the district is restarting its curriculum adoption process. For nearly a year, administrators planned to re-adopt instructional materials from California-based HealthSmart.