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 <<<<\/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: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/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":2,"featured_media":36486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,25174,1040,25176,13815,116,118,117,25175,25177,656,5242,18271],"class_list":["post-36485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-cmgshare","tag-dcps","tag-duval_county_school_board","tag-jack_madison_foglio","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jacksonville_city","tag-kevin_garago","tag-madison_foglio","tag-president","tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}