JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville City Council members and the Duval County School Board came together on Thursday with one goal on their minds: how to prevent DCPS students from getting hit by cars. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis academic school year, we\u2019re just starting our second nine weeks. We are already at 10 students, two of them being fatal,\u201d said Duval County Schools Police Chief Jackson Short. <\/p>\n
Last year, 43 students were struck by cars while walking to and from school. As a result, DCPS came up with the \u201cBe Safe, Be Seen\u201d campaign to help educate both students and staff about traffic safety. <\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Part of that campaign includes the use of \u201ctraffic gardens.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEssentially, it is a small-scale, street environment that allows students to practice those real-world activities and those real-world skills without fear of any type of risk of vehicle traffic,\u201d said Dr. Heather Albritton, Director of Health Education and Physical Education for DCPS. <\/p>\n City Council President Kevin Carrico pledged to call a meeting himself with the school board chair, superintendent and the mayor to talk about prioritizing any public works and traffic projects that involve student safety. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville City Council members and the Duval County School Board came together on Thursday with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":360830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,5229,175276,26459,175277,3188,723,29913,7310,134581,175278,30170,5207,88036,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-360829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-cmgshare","11":"tag-dcps","12":"tag-duval_county_school_board","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-jack_madison_foglio","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-jacksonville_city","18":"tag-kevin_garago","19":"tag-madison_foglio","20":"tag-president","21":"tag-safe","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115505269632836398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}