RALEIGH – The state Senate today is scheduled to consider changes in the sexual education curriculum.

The House has voted to have parents choose whether their children will take the abstinence-until-marriage classes that are now offered by most school systems or new “comprehensive” classes that give more information on topics like contraception and sexual assault.

Rep. Susan Fisher, an Asheville Democrat, said her bill had been delayed in the Senate this week over concerns about parents who don’t sign the forms - the House voted that their students would take no classes - and over a complaint from a school system.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools already teaches comprehensive classes and wants to be grandfathered in under the bill, Fisher said, but she said that would lead to requests from other school systems.