Public alternative school

A public alternative school is “any school within a community that provides alternative learning experiences to the conventional school program and which is available by choice to every family in the community at no extra cost”^[1] They include:

• Open school
• School without walls
• Learning centers
• Continuation school
• Multicultural schools
• Free school
• Schools within schools

Examples

• Woodburn Success Alternative High School
• Al Kennedy Alternative High School
• Connections Alternative School
• City School
• Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland, Oregon)

See also

• Alternative school

References

1. Marilyn R. Cohn and Mary Ellen Finch, “The Public Alternative High School: 1 Solution to or Reflection of Societal Ills?”, Council on Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Feb., 1975), pp. 9-15