Introduced By: Senators Oster and Kells
Date Introduced : January 7, 1999
RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations hereby respectfully requests that each school committee in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations make, maintain, and enforce a violence prevention program and alternative dispute program in which mandatory elementary school student participation shall be required; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shall provide necessary technical assistance in the development of the program and shall monitor the implementation of the program in each school district of the state; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized and directed to transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Peter McWalters, Commissioner of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.