
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 28, 1991                   TAG: 9102280524
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/2   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short

N.Y. HIGH SCHOOLS OK STUDENT-CONDOMS PLAN

High school students in the nation's largest public school system can get condoms on demand, without their parents' permission, starting next fall.

The distribution plan affecting 260,000 students is one of a handful of similar programs across the country - and the most liberal, because it does not require visits to health clinics, said Robin Lewis, spokeswoman for the Center for Population Options in Washington.

The plan, linked to a beefed-up AIDS-awareness program that stresses abstinence, was approved 4-to-3 by the Board of Education Wednesday night after five months of debate.

by CNB