The highly acclaimed international sporting event will bring 7,000 Special Olympic athletes from 150 countries to the Triangle area of North Carolina from June 26 July 4, 1999. The program, currently under design, will parallel similar state and county government programs already providing financial incentives for money-saving suggestions. Stay tuned for additional information regarding this program. When a school's staff develops its Safe Schools Plan, they must take into consideration more than the physical attributes of the building. They must also consider other variables that can con-tribute or detract students from achieving academic growth such as attendance, discipline, parental involvement, school morale and the potential for violence.
Most schools probably feel pretty good about their plan.
One way to be sure is to have a N.C. Safe Schools Team review your plan. Safe Schools Teams which have been hard at work helping low-performing schools assess and strengthen their Safe Schools Plans and making presentations on students at risk for unsafe behaviors. It was nice to have the N.C. Safe Schools Team validate the over-all thoroughness of our plan. Once a Safe Schools Team is assigned to a school, it will first assess the school's strengths and needs, then assist school personnel with developing goals, strategies and a long-term plan for improvement. Even though our plan was pretty thorough, we found the suggestion to involve the county in the development of our crisis plan to be extremely beneficial.