WASHINGTON Nearly twice as many teenagers reported that therewere gangs in their schools in 1995 as in 1989, and the number ofstudents victimized by violent crime was up nearly 25 percent, thegovernment reported Sunday.
President Clinton called the findings unacceptable and urgedCongress to approve anti-gang and youth violence proposals he made ayear ago.
Based on surveys of students ages 12 to 19, street gangs werespotted in schools by 28.4 percent of the students questioned in 1995compared with only 15.3 percent in 1989, the Bureau of JusticeStatistics and the National Center for Education Statistics reported.Violent crime at school - physical attacks or …
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