Newsbrief:
DARE
Attrition
Continues
in
Kansas
City,
Kansas
10/18/02
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. PERMISSION to reprint or redistribute any or all of the contents of Drug War Chronicle (formerly The Week Online with DRCNet is hereby granted. We ask that any use of these materials include proper credit and, where appropriate, a link to one or more of our web sites. If your publication customarily pays for publication, DRCNet requests checks payable to the organization. If your publication does not pay for materials, you are free to use the materials gratis. In all cases, we request notification for our records, including physical copies where material has appeared in print. Contact: StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network, P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 293-8340 (voice), (202) 293-8344 (fax), e-mail drcnet@drcnet.org. Thank you. Articles of a purely educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of the DRCNet Foundation, unless otherwise noted.
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