Newsbrief: DARE Attrition Continues in Kansas City, Kansas 10/18/02

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Police in Kansas City, KS, are phasing out the much-criticized Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program in the city schools. The program will be terminated at the end of the school year, police officials told the Kansas City Star. They cited budget constraints. The decision will end an 11-year collaboration between the police and city schools.

Kansas City is only the latest in an ever-growing number of cities and school districts to cancel DARE, which famously relies on uniformed police officers in the classroom to teach drug prevention. The program has been losing favor for several years, but remains in place in thousands of school districts across the country.

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