BURBANK TO ALLOCATE $175,000 FOR TEENS ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES BACKED.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer BURBANK - As recommended by the Mayor's Youth Task Force, the City Council is scheduled tonight to set aside $175,000 for anger management classes, a police mentoring project and a documentary program to chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. teen issues. The allocation would include $15,000 to produce ``Teens In Action,'' videos on issues of importance to teens. Some $75,000 would go toward counseling programs and anger management classes at Burbank's three middle schools, and $50,000 to a high school counseling program. Officials also would give $15,000 to the Teens in Action Police/Youth Relations program for mentoring, basketball games and television shows that promote safety. An additional $20,000 would go to an entrepreneurial academy for 35 students. The money would come from $250,800 of the youth programs fund the city created in fiscal 2002-2003. ``In the long term, it's a whole generation of kids who will be raised with the respect and tolerance for one another so they don't engage in the kind of activities we see around us,'' said Gregory Bowman, superintendent of the 15,000-student Burbank Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. . ``The goal is to work out their differences, to prevent the problems before they occur.'' ``Teens In Action'' has produced five programs on discrimination, depression and suicide, sex and teen dating, and an Emmy-nominated show about drugs and alcohol, which will be used this fall in high school health classes in Burbank. Students come up with the ideas, create and act in the videos. ``It's important for me because we are doing something to help other teens who might not know who to turn to for advice,'' said Wendy DeLeon, 19, a John Burroughs High School John Burroughs High School is a public high school located in Burbank, California. Emilio Urioste, Jr. is the current principal. The school was built in the 1920's, but wasn't established as a high school until 1948. The school was named after naturalist John Burroughs. graduate who worked on the Emmy-nominated ``Sex - What You Don't Know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. Might Hurt You.'' ``We're reaching out our hands to the teens of our community.'' About $75,000 would go to provide anger management and other counseling sessions to 110 students at David Starr Jordan David Starr Jordan, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 19, 1851 – September 19, 1931) was a leading ichthyologist (the study of fish), educator and peace activist. He was president of Indiana University and Stanford University. , Luther Burbank and John Muir middle schools A middle school part of the Huron Valley School District located in Milford, MI. It is located in Milford, MI in Oakland County, MI. It is directly across the street from Baker Elementary. Muir Middle School serves grades 6 through 8. The mascot is the Hawkeye. . The city also would provide $50,000 to offer similar sessions for 50 to 100 students at Burbank, Burroughs and Monterey high schools Monterey High School can refer to the following secondary schools:
Jason Kandel, (818) 546-3306 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com |
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