273 Curtis Elementary Students Graduate From DARE Program

Published January 8, 2013

273 Curtis Elementary students graduate from DARE program – bossierparish.ksla.com Curtis Elemetary School hosted Monday night’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education graduation ceremony. The DARE program, run by the Bossier Parish Sheriff’s Office, graduated 273 students. DARE teaches young people how to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs and violence. The kids from Curtis bossierparish.ksla.com

D.A.R.E. America Seeks to Revoke New Jersey Charter

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New Jersey's Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program won a preliminary court injunction barring the California-based nonprofit national group, D.A.R.E. America, from attempting to revoke its charter over a disputed education program.
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NJ schools add armed officers at steep cost

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Many experts have argued that the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, a program in which officers educated kids about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse, was ineffective. There is no guarantee that they could have prevented the tragedy at Newtown.
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