Discontented, Some Districts Shifting Gears on Anti-Drug Programs
It's a new year, and in the King County, Wash., schools, DARE officers are out and school resource officers are in.
Parents at first were upset by the county sheriff's department decision to drop the widely used Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.
At Meredith Hill Elementary School in Auburn, which is part of the Federal Way school district in King County, parents initiated a letter-writing campaign when the sheriff's office first talked of...
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