Politics and sex-related programs in urban schooling

Very Little is known about why urban school districts choose to enact sex-r elated education and health programs. In this article, the authors test a m odel explaining such programs using: a 1992 Council of Urban Boards of Educ ation survey. They fmd that the likelihood a school district will offer suc h programs is significantly affected by perceived local support for the pro grams, the percentage of women on the school board, the local Hispanic popu lation, local median family income, and district private school enrollment. Measures of need, such as the urban birthrate, do not appear to have a sig nificant effect.