Hundreds of thousands of teens get pregnant every year in the U.S., and Texas tops the nation.

Despite more money going toward sex education classes, those numbers are going up. For the first time in about 15 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says teen pregnancies are on the rise. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services a teen in Texas gets pregnant every 10 minutes.

“I really didn't know what was to come, the only thing I did know was that I was responsible for my actions and I had to take care of it,” said Aaliyah Noble, teen mom.

Noble, now 24, learned she was pregnant when she was 19.

“I was really confused and I didn't know what was going to happen,” said Noble.

Once a baby comes, priorities often change.

One of the challenges teen parents face is continuing their education, and AISD has five high schools -- Travis, Reagan, Crockett, East Side Memorial and Garza -- with daycares so that teen parents can continue learning.

“It's a really juggling act and a lot of young people don't have that down yet because it was hard enough to deal with their own school schedules, so now they're having to work with their school schedules along with their kids' school schedules as well as work schedules,” said Noble.

It was a juggle Noble wasn't prepared for even though she took sex-education in high school.

“It is mandated by law,” said Tracy Lunoff, AISD Student Health coordinator.

Lunoff says AISD requires that all of its high school students to take a semester long sex-ed course. The class focuses on abstinence. However, more teens in Texas get pregnant than in any other state.

“It doesn't surprise me. It's a lot of about education. I know I got pregnant when I was young because I didn't have the education that I needed. I didn't have anyone that came in and told me the realities of being a parent,” said Noble.

Noble is not alone. According to a 2006 study, 25 percent of teenage girls and 28 percent of teenage boys say their parents never talked to them about sex and safety.

For those students, sex education is left up to teachers in the classroom. Based on the 2004 study, 90 percent of Texans supported sex education in the classroom.