5 Baltimore School Clinics To Offer Students Norplant

By Jessica Portner

Public-health and school officials in Baltimore announced last week that they will begin offering Norplant, the surgically implanted contraceptive, in two more high school health clinics next month and in three others next spring.

The Baltimore city school system last January became the first district in the nation to offer the long-term contraceptive to its students when it opened a pilot program at a high school for girls who are pregnant or who have had children. (See Education Week, Dec. 16, 1992.)

The five clinics slated to be included in the expansion of the program are all...