The agencies jointly announced $7.2 million in grants. "Random student drug testing is a powerful, proven tool that communities can use to prevent drug use and identify young people who have started on the path toward drug addiction," said ONDCP Director John Walters. "Drug testing makes our young people safer and helps shield them against a major public-health threat that has ruined so many lives. While youth drug use is down 17 percent over the last three years, there are still too many teens using drugs. That is why we must continue to develop programs, such as random student drug testing, that prevents use and provides needed treatment to those who have already begun."

The Department of Education's competitive Student Drug Testing Demonstration Grants program supports confidential and non-punitive random testing; the program calls for schools to have in place an assessment, referral, and intervention scheme for students who test positive.

A complete list of grantees can be found here.