COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Senate has passed controversial legislation that would require all public school students in grades six through 12 to be taught a three-part “Success Sequence” emphasizing marriage before childbirth as a key step toward avoiding poverty.

Senate Bill 156, sponsored by state Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, passed along party lines and now moves to the Ohio House of Representatives for consideration. If enacted, the bill would require the state’s Department of Education and Workforce to develop standards and a model curriculum for teaching the sequence.

The core of the mandate is a three-pronged framework based on research suggesting individuals are "overwhelmingly less likely to live in poverty in adulthood" if they follow a specific order of life choices:

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