Pubdate: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 Source: Quad-City Times (IA) Copyright: 2001 Quad-City Times Contact: 500 E. Third St., Davenport, IA 52801 Fax: (319) 383-2370 Feedback: http://www.qctimes.com/write_edletter/writeletter.html Website: http://www.qctimes.com/ 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Keith Brilhart