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Additional Comments For the Board of Education

Response to Board of Education comments and additional information  By Richard Urban, ULTRA Teen Choice Executive Director In response to questions or comments by Board of Education Members regarding my testimony at the hearing on November 28, 2007, plus additional comments. 1. Mary Lord, regarding use of out of date YRBSS statistics saying that more DC youth are abstaining: As a later witness later pointed out, the data used is the most recent data, and the data referred to by Ms. Lord is a preview of national data, not Washington, DC data. This is an instance of attempting to discredit...

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Save DC Rally Press Release

Contact: Richard Urban 202-544-5081  SAVE DC Coalition asks Mayor Fenty to launch an independent investigation about the expulsion of ULTRA Teen Choice from DC Public Schools At a press conference and rally today , the SAVE DC Coalition called for Mayor Fenty to immediately launch an independent investigation into why ULTRA Teen Choice, a directive abstinence education program has been expelled from DC Public Schools.  ULTRA Teen Choice, a directive abstinence education program that provides classroom HIV & Teen Pregnancy Prevention education, peer counseling by abstinent youth, and...

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Response to Michelle Rhee

Dear Ms. Rhee, I am writing in response to your last email.  I have a number of questions: 1)  What are the “serious concerns” made by the Capitol Hill Cluster LSRT?  Also, who are the “other concerned individuals”.  The LSRT has never stated any reason for not wanting the ULTRA Teen Choice Program at Stuart-Hobson Middle School, other than stating “their curriculum failed to meet the DC Standards at the time”.  What standards did it fail to meet?  Our program has been reviewed multiple times by the DCPS HIV/AIDS office.  See the attached letter.(Attached:  Letter from Linda Wright). ...

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The Real Deal About Discrimination in Washington DC

The Real Deal About Discrimination in Washington DC  By Richard Urban Abstinence stigma is a term coined by Martin Ssempa, an HIV/AIDS prevention educator in Uganda. It means that children who are staying abstinent are made to feel that there is something wrong with them if they are abstinent.This term can aptly be applied to DC youth and the adults supporting them as they are made to feel that there is something wrong with helping youth to stay sexually abstinent and drug free.Dr. Richard Nyankori has decided to selectively eliminate the ULTRA Teen Choice program based on his personal...

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Michelle Rhee Letter

12/6/07 Dear Ms. Rhee, Hello. My name is Richard Urban. I am the co-founder and Executive Director of ULTRA Teen Choice, a youth empowerment program that guides youth toward the formation of two parent families and positive character development by emphasizing the benefits of abstinence from drugs, alcohol, and sex before a committed lifetime monogamous relationship, such as marriage. We serve schools, community based and faith based organizations. The program provides HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy prevention education plus character development education. ULTRA Teen Choice peer counselors...

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