LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Proposed updates to Michigan’s health education standards would still give parents the chance to opt their children out of any sex education instruction in public schools.

Officials with the Michigan Department of Education on Tuesday clarified the proposed updates in an attempt to “address misinformation” as the State Board considers updating health education standards for public schools for the first time since 2007.

Dr. Pamela Pugh, the State Board of Education President, said in a statement that politicians, media and advocacy groups “have spread falsehoods to scare parents into thinking that schools would teach sex education to their children without giving parents a chance to opt out from the instruction.”

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” Pugh sai

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