IPS, PERRY TOWNSHIP SHARE $1.2 MILLION GRANT TO CURB DRUGS, VIOLENCE

Two Marion County public school districts will share $1.2 million in
federal grant money to focus on lessening violence and substance abuse in
middle schools.

Indianapolis Public Schools will receive $664,772 over the next three
years, and Perry Township Schools will get $547,166. Each district will use
the money to hire coordinators to develop a middle school anti-drug and
anti-violence initiative.

IPS has been a recipient of the grant in the past, and the district has
coordinators at eight of 17 middle schools. The money will be used to hire
five additional coordinators.

This is the first time Perry Township has received the drug- and
violence-prevention grants. It was among 74 districts nationwide to get the
funding. The Far-Southside district has the largest and third-largest
middle schools in the state