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DOCUMENT RESUME '' ED 242 05 EA 016 574., AUTHOR Raywid, Matey Anne TITLE directory: Public Secondary Alternative Schools in the United States and Several Canapan Provinces. INSTITUTION Hofstra Univ.,11iempstead, NYProject on Alternatives in Education. SPONS AGENCY National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. PUB DATE 82 GRANT NIE-G-80-0194 NOTE X74p.; For related document, see EA 016 575.' AVAILABLE FROM"Publication's, Prdject on Alternatives in Education, .Hofstra 'University, Ilempstead,NT 11550 ($7.00; make checks payable'to Mary Anne Raywid, PAE). PUB TYPE Reference Materials'- DireCtories/Catalogs (132?- .,-- 'EDRS PRICE MF01/PC07 Plus Postage. - DESCRIPTORS Adolescents; *EXperimental Schools; *Nontraditional Education; *Public Schools; Sdhool Choie; *Secondary Education' IDENTIFIERS *Project on Alternatives in Education ABSTRACT This,directorypresents the names and addressei of' 2,500 public alternative schools and programs serving secondary school-age children in the United States and three Canadian provinces (Ontario, Britiih.Columbia, and,Alberta).'The.addresses are listed alphabetically by state, with the-Canadian entries in a separate section at the end. Each school or program listed has been assigned a .1 six-digit number; the first two digits indicate the state (numbered in alphaiSetical order),the,nexi three designate the school in the, order it was located, and the final digit indicates the school type, where discernible: 0 = unsPecified, I = senior high, 2 = junior high, 3 = middle school, 4 = continuation ,school, 5 =,speciarpoptlIation school (special populations may be pregnant teenagers, specTal education students, and students in punitive programs), 6 = combined junior- senior high,. 7 = elementary through senior high, 8 = elementary through junior higir. The list will be updated. periodically. (TE) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original dodmuent. , * *********************************************************************** . r- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EOUCATION "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS 'EOUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION MATERIAL HAS B EN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) ft- X This ,document has been reproduced. as . received from the person or organization originating it.i ' 1.1 Minor Changes have been made to improve repraductiori quality.. - 1 Points of view or opinions stated in this docu, TO THE EDIATION'AL RESOURCES ment do not necessarily represent official NIE INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC):: position or, policy. DIRECTORY PUBLIC SECONDARY ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLS N. inn the UNITED STATESand SEVERAL 6ANADIA4 PROV *. 1982 4. Mary Anne Raywid' .proAgt on Alternatives in Education CI. .Hofstra University Hempstead, New York11550 The research represented in this survey was perforMed with the aid of Grint G-80-0194 from the National ititute of Education, School Management and OrganizS- tion,Studies Office. Listing a school in,the direcOry does not imply pndorsement by the Project on Alternatives inlEducation, or the Department of Education, Nitionil Inkeitute of Educatidh. ABOUT THIS LIST The names and addresses of alternative schools appearingon subse.- quent pages :were assembled as part of a national survey of public second -P - ,ary alternative education.. The list was compiled and the survey coddlicted between(September, 1981 and April, 1982. Our initial list came from a/number of different sources. 'lc began withlettersseeking help froi approximately 150 alternativeschool friirods across the coum;ry. Simultaneously, letters of inquiry wentto all statedepartmentsof, educationand to the superintendentsof.schools 3i1., 11 of the nation's towns a#4 cities ofmore than 50,000 population. In an effort to supplement-the listings received from these inquiries, and v . to offset resulting imbalance iil the direction of urban alternatives, re- , . quests for the names of suburbin alternatives went to all state contacts , of the National Education Association's Division of Instruction and Pro- fessional Development.. Officials of:Kettering's /I/D/E/A kindly :shared that organization's mailing list, as did officers of a dozen mate,... and, regional alternative education associations. A number of education peri7 odicals also helied,by running brief announcements ofthe survey and requests for the names of individual alternative programs -- including Phi Delta Kappan, ASCD Update,NASSP. News Leader,NEA Now, A4CTE Brief's, Changing Schools, and .Unicorn. It was our intent to obtain a comprehensive listing of all ofthe , nation's public alterat veschoold(and schools-within-schools, mini - schools,etc.). Yet as events developed, that goal became impossible; dispite extensive efforts and the generous assistance indicated above. (Months later, we are still learning, regularly of,new.xprograms previously undiscovered by our efforts.) Succeeding pages list a\total of 2500 public alternative schools, addressed' primarily to the secondary level. We Suspect that there are probably two to three times that number altogether. -t- but that no one is to beableto.confirm'that. Tyreare say- erfil reasons. One of the most central is the reportiglOpractices of many school districts,a number of which submitted questionnaires notedto representfour schools-- orseven programs --or, simply "multiple schools," without identifyinethem. Nomenclature differences. were also problematic and led both to some inclusions and exclusions that Are misleading. For example, some areas ° don't consider "magnet" ,sghools to be alternatives -- and we-know that a number of such programs which we would have liked to list are missing from these pages. On the other, hand, some .areas label punitive' programs",alternatives," and so there arse programs of that type listed -- although most definitions would exclude them. (We purpoiely sought. to determine what kinds of programs are locally called "alternatives" -- which exposed- some widely discrepant word usage in different parts of the country, and accounted for some of\the particular inclusions and exclusions which fUr- , ther specifigation on qur part might have precluded.) Although the list Ito follow is, then, nowhere_ near the comprehensive one we had hoped for, t does' exceed original intentions in several re- . spects. In the first pl ce, Canadian schools from several provinces asked to be included -- and s we have a/number of listings in Canada.sAlio, since. we were trying to inclusive of all alternative schools or pro- gr s serving.secondary-sch ol age younisters,,we ended up with some A that are, not, strictly speaking; secondary schools -- e.g., K-12, schools, middle schogls which extend into the junior high years, addeven elemptary school alternatives extending beyond the sixth grade. There\ are not many such schools but there are same. Eadh schOql or-program listed has its own number, and the list 3 divided by states. The first two digits in the 'school's identifying number indicate the state -- with each state, assigned a number according to its alphabetical order among the states.: The next three digits are the number we assigned ;he-particular school -- typically,reflecting nothing more than the order in which we located it, and beginning 4 th the number 001. There are a couple of exceptions to this, which sho ld be frly readily apparent. For instance, in New York State, Long island alterna- tiVes are assigned a 100 series number (xx100x),upstate\schools are assigned a 000 series number, and New York City sdhools are assigned a 300-400 series number. The,final digit ofeach identifying n4Mber indicates '!chaol type M 1 I where this was cernible'andeasily classified-.\- Otherwise, a final digit of- ned. 1 indicates sigh tchOol alternative 2 indicates ghalternative, 3 indicates mi chool 4 indicates coati 'ation sChool 5 indicates spiFkal,,populatten school,. including 'programs for pregnant tee0agers, specihI education students, and.students in punitive ;pgrams 6 indicates c..Y,Ined \junior-senior high alternative 7 indicates pr extending from elementary into senior high school: 8 indicates program eXtending from elementary. into junior high Recipients of this list might he, interested in other related products of, the Project,on Alternatives in Education. As a result of the first year of the Project's inquiry, there is also a report ofthe national survey' and its findings (the survey whose respondents are asterisked on this list). There is alto a comprehensive literature review of most of the material published on alternative edudation, 'including approximately 800 books, articles, research reports, etc., Finally, a conceptualization of alternative education is in\preParati\on. The manuscript, The . Alternative in Alternatives, attempts../ to ideittify alternative' schools in \' -, \ % terms of their dephrtures from conventional edtation. \ . Appreciation should be expressed toJoEieph Manghise and Dorothy \\TrambeckY for help in assembling and correcting this list. Both have . \SPOptdifficult hour's cheerfully and' tirelessly\in revising and supple- / \ menting'it..1 thank them both. \ . ',- \ We hope to update the list that follows peri4licaliy " and indeed, F sine' the current printing havereceiVed a-number 1 additional entries. We horie that subsequent printings will\also represent refinements and the . further\elimination of duplications and other errors: We have been far 1 mom

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