The first class was five days a week and involved 163 students.

It would have involved 5,000 students in the state's worst schools.

In total, seven groups involving 250 students went through the program this fall.

"No one can believe that it actually happened in someone's room involving students."

This one is different, school officials say, because of how it involves students.

About 12 percent have such problems, according to the health group's survey, which involved 17,000 students at 31 colleges.

The schools would be models for involving students in service activities.

The program was quite small in the mid-1980's, involving fewer than 500 students.

Abuse by one teacher, who was also an administrator, began in 1996 and involved three female students.