New approach for troubled students in New Orleans
Mar 24, 2008 11:25 AM
Frustrated by conventional schools' failure to connect with some of New Orleans' struggling students, the chief judge of the Orleans Parish juvenile court system plans to open a new breed of alternative high school this spring. The as-yet-unnamed school defies easy categorization. It will be run through the juvenile court system, but not all of its students will have faced legal troubles; it will serve disruptive children who have been kicked out of other schools, but it also aims to enroll a fair number of students who have never had behavioral issues; and its students will spend as much time in work settings -- helping to build homes, for instance -- as in the classroom.
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