Ohio schools would be required to teach students to graduate high school, get a job and get married — in that order — before having a baby, according to a bill the Ohio Senate passed last week.

This order of events is also known as the success sequence and Senate Bill 156 passed with a 24-9 party-line vote. State Sen. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, introduced the bill which now moves to the Ohio House for consideration.

“We have an obligation to the next generation,” Cutrona said. “We need to help them break the chains of poverty. Now this bill provides just that, creating the opportunity by taking (a) three-pronged approach.”

The bill requires the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce to create a model curriculum for the success sequence for grades 6-12 and this would be a graduation r

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