Schools : EDUCATION BRIEFS

ARCADIA: With the support of city officials and the Police Department, the Arcadia Unified School District launched a program March 22 that takes a hard line against drugs and weapons on school campuses. Under the program, called Peaceful Arcadia through Community Effort 2000, or PACE 2000, students caught assaulting another student, bringing a weapon to school or selling drugs on campus will be automatically expelled. They may reapply to the district in a year or apply to another school district.

PASADENA: High school students from Pasadena High School’s Visual Arts and Design Academy, the Graphic Arts Academy and Pasadena Alternative School are writing, designing and producing a series of bus posters emphasizing AIDS/HIV awareness. In late April, the posters will be installed in Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses on San Gabriel Valley routes.

ROWLAND HEIGHTS: In an effort to determine parent, staff and student satisfaction with Rowland Unified School District’s performance, school officials will conduct a comprehensive survey of the school curriculum, administration and management. It will be the first districtwide survey in almost a decade and the first survey to seek comments from students. Survey forms will be sent out by late spring and will be printed in several languages.