Clinton Offers Tonic for School Violence

President Clinton announced in Washington a series of initiatives to curb school violence, including a $65-million plan to help local communities hire 2,000 new police officers to stand guard at high-risk schools. The effort, unveiled at a daylong White House conference on classroom violence, is part of a broader initiative aimed at helping communities nationwide keep their schools safe. “Preventive policing has helped to make our streets safe. It can work for our schools too,” Clinton said. The police will be hired to work at the 10% of public schools, mostly urban, that have been hit hardest by violence.