Funds for School Drug Programs Almost Doubled
San Diego County schools have received additional state funding that will enable them to spend $7.5 million--almost double the current level--to bolster drug prevention programs, education officials announced Thursday.
Funding from the state Office of Criminal Justice Planning, the State Department of Education and Proposition 99--the Tobacco Use Prevention Act--will provide nearly $3.5 million to finance alcohol, tobacco and drug-use prevention efforts, said Sharon Snyder, the county’s student well-being coordinator who oversees such programs.
The county’s 43 public school districts now spend $4 million annually on drug prevention.
According to Snyder, about $200,000 of the new funds will be given to the San Diego Police Department’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, or DARE.
The state Office of Criminal Justice Planning will provide $1 million through its Comprehensive Alcohol Drug Prevention Education program.
The Proposition 99 funds--almost $2.2 million--will be used to support programs for students in kindergarten through high school.
The state Department of Education will provide $343,000 to establish a Regional Technical Assistance Center for comprehensive health education.
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