A program that teaches fifth-graders about puberty is on hiatus at the West Shore School District after the organization that runs the lessons said it intended to bow out following an apparently ...

The West Shore School District – or rather the majority membership of its board - took fresh heat Tuesday night over its closed-door meeting with a controversial conservative law firm, but moved ...

A Vermont elementary school is reportedly removing "male" and "female" language from its fifth grade science lessons covering the human body, puberty and reproduction. In a letter sent home to parents ...

At two of the schools, girls were not given sanitary pads or puberty lessons to discuss how to manage their monthly periods. The report in the US journal PLOS ONE is based on research by the ...