Governor Rick Perry sides against science / statistics, promotes abstinence-based ‘education’.
SINCE 1995, Texas schools have favored abstinence-only curricula over other forms of sex ed. The state received around $14 million a year in federal funding for abstinence education through 2008 (Obama canceled these programs).
In 2005, a study “found that students in almost all high school grades were more sexually active after undergoing abstinence education.” In 2007, Texas had “the highest rate of births and repeat births to teenage girls in the nation.” (source) (emphasis mine)