PURPOSE: This rule is to identify and adopt a violence prevention program(s) for section 161.650, RSMo, pertaining to a Safe Schools Curriculum Framework for use in Missouri public schools.

1. (1) The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shall identify and, if necessary, adopt an existing program or programs of educational instruction regarding violence prevention to be administered by public school districts. The program(s) shall contain the following:

   1. (A) Instruction for students of negative consequences of membership and/or participation in criminal street gang activity; and
   2. (B) Training for school district employees in violence prevention and early identification of and intervention in violent behavior.
2. (2) This program will be available for school districts beginning with the 1998-99 school year. AUTHORITY: section 161.650, RSMo Supp. 1997.* Original rule filed Oct. 16, 1998, effective May 30, 1999.

*Original authority 1996.