The Illinois Attorney General's Office is withholding records from the state's largest school district about gender and sexuality lessons offered in classrooms, according to a Jan. 5 letter sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. It is said that he gave permission to do so.
Since 2021, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has paid Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago more than $90,000 for a series of trainings offered through its organization. sexuality education program, which includes anal sex instruction and lessons on transgender sexual communication. CPS denied DCNF's first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request related to sex education materials in August, stating that under Illinois law “class materials or research materials used by faculty” are exempt from release through FOIA requests. He said there was.
The Illinois Attorney General's Office supported this decision in a January letter to the DCNF, citing an Illinois law that exempts “educational materials” used in public schools. DCNF's FOIA sought videos, slideshows, documents, or handouts related to sex education materials that CPS received from Lurie Children's Hospital. (Related: Children's Hospital Charges Schools Thousands of Dollars for Training on How to Teach About Gender Identity and Anal Sex)
“The Section 7(1)(j)(iv) exemption expressly exempts disclosure of 'classroom materials' used in public schools,” the Attorney General's Office wrote. The attorney general's office said that while “FOIA does not define 'course material,'” the DCNF's request is “consistent with the plain meaning of the term.”
illinois law It contains When requesting public records, “class materials or research materials used by instructors'' are included in “not subject to inspection or copying.'' However, public bodies must disclose information contained in exempt material that is not itself exempt.
DCNF argues that “the public has a right to review all public education curriculum materials,” and that “this sex education curriculum is paid for by Chicago schools and should be subject to public review.” “There is,” he claimed.
Lurie Children's Hospital has “unique expertise in providing sex education for kindergarten through eighth grade students,” according to the hospital's website. The hospital's student program touches on “consent, communication, and safe sex,” as well as “healthy LGBTQ relationships, anal sex, and HIV.”
The hospital also offers “gender and LGBTQ inclusion training” for teachers and other education professionals, according to its website.
One of the hospital's presentations on “Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Practices,'' which aligns with the National Sex Education Standards, which are K-12 sex education curricula, teaches fifth-grade sexual Regarding orientation, it is recommended that 8th graders be taught about anal sex.
In 2022, the hospital partnered with four school districts in Illinois to promote gender transition sex toys and resources. The hospital also released a video series showing young children discussing sexual topics with adult transsexuals.
A sign is posted in front of Chicago Public Schools headquarters. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Although CPS is withholding certain materials used during these sex education sessions, invoices obtained by DCNF provide insight into what is being taught in Chicago classrooms.
CPS spent $15,000 on “.Gender and sexuality workshopAccording to invoices obtained by DCNF, Lurie Children's Hospital will pay $23,000 in 2021 for “gender and sexuality resource development” in 2022, including $5,000 for “expectation team fees.” It is said that it has been filled.
Schools in the district also spent $2,250 for 15 hours of instruction in 2021.sexuality education workshop'' the hospital told me.
CPS, Lurie Children's Hospital and the Illinois Attorney General's Office did not immediately respond to DCNF's requests for comment.
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