Drug-Free-Schools Grants Targeted by Bush
Program provides a case study of pros and cons of federal spending.
When Alabama school counselor Angie Johnson discovered that some of her middle school students had seen methamphetamines in their neighborhood, she went to the Internet for lessons to help her explain the dangerous chemicals the drug contains and what they would do to students’ bodies.
To pay for the lessons, Ms. Johnson used some of the $8,000 in federal money her school, Handley Middle School in Roanoke, Ala., received this year under the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities grant program. But in future years, if Congress heeds the Bush administration’s wish, Ms. Johnson won’t be able to tap that source of funds.
For the second year in a row, President Bush has proposed to eliminate funding for the program, which funnels money to nearly every school district in the country. The Safe and Drug Free Schools program, which has a budget of $345.5 million in fiscal 2006, is one of 42 Department of Education programs, totaling $3.5 billion, the president has proposed zeroing out...
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