Chicago Launches Anti-Violence Effort

The Chicago school district has launched a major anti-violence campaign aimed at protecting students from dangers in their neighborhoods.

During the 2006-07 school year, 34 Chicago public school students were shot, stabbed, suffocated, or beaten to death—but none of those incidents occurred inside schools, according to district officials.

Officials linked the new effort to that violence, however, which included the most gun deaths for youths since the district began informally tracking those incidents nine years ago. At a kick-off for the campaign on Sept. 13, city schools chief Arne Duncan and Mayor Richard M. Daley called...