Pubdate: Thu, 04 Jan 2001
Source: Quad-City Times (IA)
Copyright: 2001 Quad-City Times
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Section: Iowa/Illinois

IOWA CITY DUMPS DARE PROGRAM

Iowa City - The Iowa City School District wants to eliminate the DARE 
program next year because it no longer fits with the district's health 
curriculum, Superintendent Lane Plugge said Tuesday.

DARE is a drug prevention program sponsored by police in which a police 
officer visits a classroom weekly during the school year to educate 
students about drug abuse.

"We wanted to do something that wasn't so stand-alone, something more 
integrated into the entire health curriculum," Plugge said.
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