Pubdate: Tue, 02 May 2006
Source: Record, The (Stockton, CA)
Copyright: 2006 The Record
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TRACY UNIFIED SUPERINTENDENT HONORED FOR DARE AWARD

TRACY - The Tracy Unified School District Board of  Trustees has
honored its superintendent, Jim Franco,  for being named California
DARE Educator of 2006.

Drug Abuse Resistance Education is an international  anti-drug and
anti-violence program taught in schools  by police officers.

Franco received the state award April 18 in Pleasanton  at a training
seminar for officers in the program. He  is in the running for the
national award, whose  recipient will be announced in July.

The program began in Los Angeles in 1983 and has spread  to 54
countries, including 80 percent of school  districts in the United
States, according to the DARE  Web site. 
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