White House Presses for More High School Drug Testing
The White House is urging more high school districts to implement mandatory random drug testing for students who participate in any voluntary after school activities. Since such testing was ruled legal by the Supreme Court in 2002, $8 million in federal aid has been given to schools to help pay for random testing. The White House hopes to spend $15 million in the next fiscal year to help more schools enact testing programs. The studies about the effectiveness of these programs are mixed, with some showing a decline in testing schools and some showing equal levels of drug use between schools that do and do not test.