Giving Compass' Take:

• Fairbury Junior-Senior High School in Nebraska is having students participate in random drug-testing in an attempt to end vaping in schools. 

• What is the best way to reduce the number of teens who vape? How can philanthropy participate in this fight to end teen vaping? 

• Here's an article showing alarming increase in e-cigarette use amongst students. 

A school district in Nebraska is forcing students in grades seven to 12 to submit to random nicotine testing if they want to take part in extracurricular activities such as speech competitions and the National Honors Society.

"Vaping and smoking, in our view, is reaching epidemic proportions," Fairbury Public Schools Superintendent Stephen Grizzle told the Lincoln Journal Star last week, after the school board voted in approval. "It's just a way we can deter kids from potentially being addicted to nicotine."

Underage vaping and nicotine addiction has grown to be a national concern, according the U.S. Surgeon General's office. The Centers for Disease Control estimates more than 3 million high school students use vaping products.

Read the full article about ending vaping in schools by Shannon Mason at Governing Magazine.