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Safety Is Priority, Say Urban School Chiefs

NCJ Number
113164
Journal
School Safety Dated: (Spring 1988) Pages: 20-21
Editor(s)
R D Stephens
Date Published
1988
Length
2 pages
Annotation
In April 1988, top administrators from the Nation's largest urban school districts met in Detroit to compare strategies for making campuses safe from drugs, gangs, and weapons and for improving discipline, leadership skills, and public support.
Abstract
Many of the strategies emphasized the need for information-sharing and the development of school-community partnerships. A number of school districts have formed citizen advisory groups and task forces with members of local business, religious, and civic organizations. Operation Rescue uses volunteers from the community to tutor and counsel students and help build support systems for them. In Los Angeles, an administrative academy is used to train principals and other school administrators in leadership and management skills that can help reduce school problems. In Baltimore, security personnel monitor a gun hotline and efforts also focus on increasing public awareness of the problem of weapons in the school. Strategies advocated for dealing with drugs at school include a mix of law enforcement, prevention, intervention, education, and counseling, and increased student and public awareness. Increased discipline, including the development of a comprehensive code of student conduct, also was advocated as a strategy for increasing the safety of schools.