Healthier families, safer schools. (Tahlequah Public Schools).To address rising incidences of drug use, truancy and violence among the youth of Cherokee County Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
The Safe Schools Program initiative began with the school district hosting a community coalition meeting attended by representatives from many local agencies to discuss the problems among the county's youth. 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. Billie Jordan, then a principal in the district, led the schools in forming a partnership with the Boys and Girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. Club of Tahlequah, the district attorney sheriff, chief of police, two local judges, Bill Willis William Karnet Willis (born October 5, 1921 in Columbus, Ohio) was one of the dominant American football players of the 1940s and 1950s, and is an inductee in the College and Professional Football Halls of Fame. Mental Health center and Northeastern State University NSU offers 69 undergraduate degrees, 18 graduate degrees, and 13 preprofessional programs in five colleges (Business & Technology, Liberal Arts, Education, Optometry, and Health & Science Professions). The student-to-faculty ratio is 26 to 1. . The goal was to work together to help solve the problems. Jordan developed and submitted two grant proposals to the U.S. Department of Education, Safe and Drug Free Schools. In 1999, the district was awarded the Safe Schools' Healthy Students Intitiative Grant and the Middle School Coordinators Program. Working through the district attorney four school resource officers were hired to work full time within the district's schools. The officers assist with discipline problems, serve as a liaison among law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). and the school district, deliver class presentations to students, track down truant students and work with them and their parents to keep the children in school. District Attorney Diane Barker-Harold worked with the district's school safety director, Gary Rozell, and county school administrators to establish a truancy court, which convenes twice monthly and is designed to help families overcome the barriers that lead to truancy. Bill Willis Mental Health provides three preventionists to the district who work full time implementing prevention and intervention programs within the schools. The preventionists and two middle-school coordinators implemented an anti-bullying program that has been replicated throughout the state. They were also instrumental in getting the state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: TO LEARN MORE CONTACT: Paul Hurst, Superintendent Tahlequah Public Schools P.O. Box 517, Tahlequah, OK 74465 Phone: 918-458-4100 E-mail: hurstp@tahlequah.k12.ok.us Web: www.tahlequah.k12.ok.us |
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