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Sachem East Receives Safe Teen Drive LI Grant

School will use grant to fund activism work that encourages responsible and smart driving by their students.

Sachem High School East was a recent recipient of a $1,000 Safe Teen Drive LI grant given by The Allstate Foundation, according to Allstate.

The school will use this grant to fund activism work that encourages responsible and smart driving by their students.

The Allstate Foundation’s Safe Teen Drive LI program aims to reduce teen crashes in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

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“We believe activism projects and events in every high school on Long Island will increase public awareness on this social epidemic,” said Allstate spokesperson Krista Conte in a statement, “and perhaps act as the reminder or light-bulb for a young driver who may be about to make a bad decision behind the wheel.”


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