The Department of Education has approved a program that provides morning-after pills or Plan B contraception to students at 13 New York City high schools.

The Plan B contraception program, Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health (CATCH), was created to combat the epidemic problem of teen pregnancy throughout the city, which often results in girls dropping out of school.

The practice of dispensing free condoms to New York City high schoolers who are sexually active has already been in place for quite some time now.  But the city’s plan to provide youths with the hormonal contraceptive Plan B method, which can prevent pregnancy if ingested up to 72 hours after having unprotected sex, could very well be the nation’s first education institution-backed plan.