Robeson High School in Chicago had a student who died in childbirth last year...

At the time of this report in February, there were about 80 pregnant teens.

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=32141

Teen Pregnancies Spike Drop Out Rate
Produced by Natalie Moore on Friday, February 20, 2009

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Morrow attended the funeral last year of one of his students who died in childbirth – a tragedy that shook the school. Morrow says he’s seen how complicated life can be for students with babies.
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Sex education is in the schools focuses more on anatomy than sex and sexuality. If the district wants to improve its graduation rate, it should start rethinking how it can support pregnant teens, says Soo Ji Min at the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health.
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Chicago public schools were supposed to implement a new sex-ed policy:
http://radioviceonline.com/almost-13-percent-of-girls-at-chicago-public-school-pregnant/

The Board of Education of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has taken a big step to standardize and improve sexuality education in its schools. On April 26, 2006 the board voted unanimously to approve the Family Life and Comprehensive Sexual Health Education policy, which will require schools to teach comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education programs in grades 6–12.

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The new policy calls for a curriculum committee to design a program that will provide students with “age-appropriate and medically accurate information concerning the emotional, psychological, physiological, hygienic and social responsibility aspects of family life.” In particular, the curriculum will emphasize abstinence as the “expected norm” but will also include instruction on contraception, STD and pregnancy prevention, and HIV transmission.

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According to this blog, the sex-ed plan hasn't been implemented:
http://apps.wbez.org/blog/?p=1771

AA: The last segment of the series 50/50 concentrated on how pregnancy impacts the drop-out rate at Robeson High School where Linda Lutton, Julia McEvoy and Natalie Moore have been embedded for almost a year. As we were researching the topic, we realized that Chicago Public Schools did not have an implemented comprehensive plan for teaching Sex Ed. This led us to wonder how individual schools deal with informing students about the health, cultural and social aspects of sexual education.

cps actually does an ok job. but any animal that lives on the edge is going to reproduce early and often. the only way to change that is to pull them back from the edge. and do it early.

no matter what your age.

and many fear telling their parents, so a lot of them do not get prenatal care for a large percentage of their pregnancy:(