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Sarastota County Charter School Wants To Drug Test Students

April 19, 2012 | 2:45 PM

Imagine School at North Port wants to test its junior high school students for drugs. The school would pay for the testing — about $4 per person. Students would be randomly selected.


SARASOTA COUNTY – Students as young as 11 years old would be tested for use of marijuana, pills, cocaine and heroin under a proposal by a North Port charter school that wants to institute the region’s most aggressive student testing program.

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