The Choice Channel

“In the latest attempt to reform the public schools, President Clinton is calling for national educational standards and national testing of public school students. But Joseph A. Califano, president National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, said that national standars won’t do any good because of all the drugs in public schools. A survey recently conducted by Califano’s center found that drugs were more common in public schools than in the surrounding neighborhood. Forty-one percent of the high school students surveyed said that they had seen drugs sold at their school. ‘Until we get drugs out of our schools, we’re not going to have the kind of quality education that everybody dreams about,’ said Mr. Califano.” (08/97)