DISTRICT SET TO GET GRANT TO CUT DOWN ON VIOLENCE.Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer LANCASTER -- The Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale will receive more than $490,000 over five years from the state to develop violence-prevention programs at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and Lancaster high schools Lancaster High School may refer to:
The district was among 33 school districts statewide that will be awarded part of the $16.1 million in grants from the new School Community Violence Prevention Program. ``We will purchase curriculum. The schools will hire a coordinator to track data and meet with student groups. There will be one person who will manage both schools to make sure the grant is being implemented,'' Assistant Superintendent Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. Barbara Willibrand said. The violence-prevention program is administered by the School/Law Enforcement Partnership, a joint effort between the Attorney General's Office and the state Department of Education. Funding is awarded to school districts and county offices of education to address school safety issues identified by school staffers, law enforcement, students, parents and community members. ``To be able to focus on learning, students need to feel safe at school,'' state schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell
Jack T. O'Connell (born October 8, 1951) is a California politician. said in a written statement. ``These grant funds will help our schools develop violence prevention programs so that students can get the most out of their education.'' With legislation passed in 2004, the Legislature consolidated six independent school safety grant programs into one new competitive statewide program. The legislation allows the Department of Education, in partnership with the Attorney General's Office, to distribute to individual recipients grants of up to $500,000 for a five- year period. More than 150 applications were submitted for the program's first year of funding. In April, the applications went through an in-depth review and scoring process conducted by three- person review teams made up of school safety professionals from law enforcement, education and community organizations. The panels judged applications on demonstrated need, the plan to address the need, the proposed budget and the extent to which they provided for a collaborative process. The first-year grants were awarded to 15 suburban, nine rural and nine urban school districts or education offices. Twelve of the grantees are in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , two are in Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:
``We cannot provide our children the education they deserve and need unless we ensure the schools we send them to provide a safe learning environment,'' state Attorney General Bill Lockyer William Westwood "Bill" Lockyer (born May 8, 1941) is the current State Treasurer of California. Prior to this, he served as California's Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice for the U.S. state of California. said in the statement. ``The school districts and county offices of education that received these grants will develop and implement programs to help achieve this public safety objective, which is critical to the future of our children and our state.'' karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5744 |
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