Valerie Huber has a long history of fighting sex ed in Ohio’s
schools—but her tenure as an abstinence coordinator was marred by
internal scandal.
By Brandy Zadrozny
Early this month, the Trump administration appointed Valerie Huber, a well-known advocate for abstinence-only sex education,
to serve as chief of staff at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. With Huber’s
pick, and a proposed 2018 budget committing $277 million to abstinence-only education,
the White House seemed to signal to its conservative base the
scientifically dubious “Just Say No” brand of sex education was back,
and now one of its staunchest believers would be helping to man the
helm.
Huber’s boss hasn’t been appointed yet, but HHS’ acting
assistant secretary for health, Don Wright, announced Huber’s hiring in
an internal memo published by The Hill.
In the email, Wright wrote that Huber’s “wealth of professional
experience in the field of public policy will serve her well in this
position.”
That experience is both limited, and includes internal scandal, The Daily Beast has learned.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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