Pubdate: Sat, 13 May 2006
Source: Times-Journal, The (Fort Payne, AL)
Copyright: 2006 Times-Journal
Contact:  http://www.times-journal.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1883
Author: Mark Harrison
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COUNTY CLOSER TO TESTING STUDENTS

A proposed program to drug test students in the DeKalb  County School
System will now go to the school board.

The system's policy sub-committee on student drug  testing approved
the policy Wednesday. It went to the  system's full policy committee
Thursday which forwarded  it to DeKalb County Superintendent Charles
Warren.

Warren said he will present the final draft to the  school board when
it meets Thursday.

Warren said the board would review and possibly discuss  the policy
during next week's meeting. He said an  actual vote would come at the
board's meeting in June.

The proposed drug-testing program is patterned after  one recently
adopted for use in the Fort Payne City  School System.

Liz Wear, director of the Partnership for a Drug Free  DeKalb,
recently secured a $500,000 three-year grant to  establish student
drug testing in both the city and  county school systems.

The grant calls for testing students, in seventh  through 12th grade,
involved in competitive  interscholastic extracurricular activities.
The city  board will test students who drive on campus.
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