A public alternative school is a state school 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".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 (February 1975), pp. 9–15. They include: Open school School Without Walls Learning centers Continuation school Multicultural schools Free school Schools within schools
Examples Al Kennedy Alternative High School City School (Vancouver) Connections Alternative School Kingsland School Leonia Alternative High School Metropolitan Learning Center (Portland, Oregon) School Without Walls (Canberra)
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