41. Public Schools & Districts Overview Of Public Elementary And Secondary Schools A 1 percent from the 46.9 million students in 1999 (Hoffman 2001, table 1). Five states(california, Florida, Illinois One percent were in alternative schools. http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/quarterly/fall/3_4.asp

site index ED.gov Elementary and Secondary Education Lee M. Hoffman This article was originally published as a Statistical Analysis Report. The universe data are primarily from the following two components of the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) : "Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey" and "Local Education Agency Universe Survey." Technical notes, definitions, and supplemental tables from the original report have been omitted. Types of Public Schools and Agencies Student Membership Instructional Level School and School District Size ... References Types of Public Schools and Agencies table A This was an increase of almost 7.1 percent over the more than 87,125 schools reported 5 years earlier, in the fall of 1995. Most of these were regular schools, those that offer a comprehensive curriculum and may provide other programs and services as well. A smaller number of schools focused primarily on special education, vocational/technical education, or alternative programs. Students in these specialized schools were often enrolled in a regular school as well and were reported as part of the membership of that regular school ( table A Among the schools that reported students in membership, 93 percent were regular schools (derived from

42. Hate Crimes Research Network Hate Crimes Research Network at Portland State University.Category Society Issues Hate Hate Crimes...... Undergirded with critical and border pedagogy, alternative schools effectivelybuild transformative as a school psychologist in Clovis, california, and he http://www.hatecrime.net/

HOME PUBLICATIONS PRESENTATIONS RESEARCH ... ARCHIVES Hate Crimes Research Network Mission Statement The Hate Crimes Research Network is designed to link academic research that is being done on the topic of bias motivated crime. Based at the Department of Sociology of Portland State University in Oregon, the HCRN links work done by sociologists, criminologists, psychologists and other academics, including graduate students. The goal is to create a common pool of research and data to understand the phenomenon of hate crimes. The HCRN and this site are directed by Dr. Randy Blazak. In the News Correspondence - Army of God Editorials Calls for Papers ... Papers IN THE NEWS 2003 ASA Meetings HCRN Panels at ASA Meetings Just a note out to HCRN people to remind them of this year's American Sociological Association meetings. The meetings are in Atlanta (my hometown) Aug. 16-19. I'm in charge of organizing the HATE CRIME panels, so if you have questions about these panels, contact me (the deadline for abstract submissions has passed). The conference website is: 2003 ASA Meetings Thanks!

43. WestEd - Secondary Literacy Support Network group of eight SLSN schools from both northern and southern california. SLSN helpedthese middle and high schools, and three alternative education programs http://www.wested.org/cs/wew/view/pj/304

Secondary Literacy Support Network SLSN Project Description: In October 2001, WestEd spearheaded the Secondary Literacy Support Network (SLSN), a technical assistance model for middle schools, high schools, and alternative education programs, who were ready and committed to implementing a comprehensive literacy approach in their school. The design of SLSN was built on the belief that most secondary schools have “pieces and parts” of a reading/literacy program, but few have a comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of all students. SLSN provides a prescribed framework that guides schools through a process of readiness, diagnosis, intervention, data analysis, coaching, and implementation support in order to address students who can’t, don’t or won’t read. Last year through SLSN WestEd worked with a pilot group of eight SLSN Schools from both northern and southern California. SLSN helped these middle and high schools, and three alternative education programs build a comprehensive literacy plan within their content-driven programs. In order to do that, SLSN designed a professional development model that included eleven days of expert training to build the capacity of schools, districts and counties. The model was intended to be replicable throughout California. This first group of schools using this model participated in a fast track of training and staff development that included: an application process, a Principals/Leadership Institute, a Literacy Leadership Team Institute, and six days of showcasing different intervention approaches by the experts and researchers in the field of literacy. The pilot schools then made informed decisions about what they thought was right for their particular students, based on data analysis using two views of data. The pilot schools then attended one day of training designed assist the schools in writing a literacy plan that had accountability and designed to impact literacy for all students.

44. USCS: Overview Of Charter Schools of other reform ideas, from alternative schools, to site in Minnesota where charterschools were developed charter school law, with california following suit in http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/gi/overview.htm

HOME LOGIN REGISTER HELP ... faq Overview of Charter Schools Definition Benefits Brief History National Statistics ... FAQ Definition Charter schools are nonsectarian public schools of choice that operate with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools. The "charter" establishing each such school is a performance contract detailing the school's mission, program, goals, students served, methods of assessment, and ways to measure success. The length of time for which charters are granted varies, but most are granted for 3-5 years. At the end of the term, the entity granting the charter may renew the school's contract. Charter schools are accountable to their sponsor usually a state or local school board to produce positive academic results and adhere to the charter contract. The basic concept of charter schools is that they exercise increased autonomy in return for this accountability. They are accountable for both academic results and fiscal practices to several groups: the sponsor that grants them, the parents who choose them, and the public that funds them. For the legal definition of a charter school in a particular state, consult that state's charter school law through our

45. WorldNetDaily: New Pro-homosexual Regulations Drafted BRAVE NEW schools New prohomosexual regulations drafted Guidelines for alternative-lifestylepromotion california's year-old anti-discrimination law designed http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22709

46. Clean School Buses, Healthy Kids alternative Fuels Technician, Tulsa Public schools, at (918 maintaining a 100 percentalternative fuel fleet. The california Energy Commission's Safe School Bus http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/trucks_and_buses/page.cfm?pageID=243

47. Education Entrepreneurs And Industry Organizations And Resources of 970 pupils, and plans to open three new california schools for the 2001 BeaconEducation Management (formerly alternative Public schools) Beacon fully http://edreform.com/education_reform_resources/business_industry.htm

Making Schools Work Better for All Children EDUCATION ENTREPRENEURS SERVING PUBLIC SCHOOLS INDUSTRY RESOURCES THE CHARTER MARKETPLACE: WHERE SUPPLY MEETS DEMAND: Connecting service and equipment vendors with the nation's charter schools, at the 2002 National Charter School Conference. List of vendors Eduventures.com , Inc. is an education industry research and information services firm. The Company's extensive web-based resources are designed to help education businesses develop strategy, raise capital and acquire talent. Eduventures.com also provides education industry investors with up-to-date news and analysis on industry mergers and acquisitions, investments, venture funding, alliances and IPOs. Many of the Company's research and information services are available free of charge. In-depth research, targeted industry analysis, and custom advisory services are available via subscription. Eduventures.com has recently purchased the highly regarded Education Industry Group, LLC, which was founded in 1992 by John M. McLaughlin to connect the business, investment and education communities.

48. IDEA Rapid Response Network (RRN) News Briefing #2 April 29, 2002 california and Washington DC. expulsion and resegregation in alternative placements). liberallyallowing schools, particularly teachers, to unilaterally move. http://www.dredf.org/briefing2.html

From the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) preserveIDEA@dredf.org IDEA Rapid Response Network (RRN) News Briefing April 29, 2002 GREAT RESPONSE: DREDF's RRN Staff was overwhelmed and overjoyed by the response to our first announcement earlier this month launching the RRN. Almost 1,000 individuals (primarily parents and child advocates) from across the country sent back emails saying they wanted to be involved in and receive information from the RRN. It is very encouraging that so many of you responded and that the base for building the Network is already well established. If you did not receive the first announcement or want to respond to it go to preserveIDEA@dredf.org RRN PURPOSE: The purpose of the Network is to build a group of parents and supporters nationwide who can be called on to respond to proposed amendments or concepts for changes to IDEA that might weaken, eliminate or in any way compromise the civil rights of children with disabilities during the upcoming Congressional reauthorization process and, when necessary, call on parents in specific states to respond to the positions of their members of Congress; to educate and inform parents about proposals to amend IDEA. The

49. Program - HATE Motivated Behavior In Schools 21 st, Moreno Valley USD alternative schools/High schools, Hate Motivated Behaviorin schools; The Tsunami hate incidents occurring on california's public school http://www.alameda-coe.k12.ca.us/apps/page.asp?Q=308

50. NDPC/N Effective Strategy : : : Alternative Schooling initiated permissive legislation such as in california that now estimates as manyas 35% of public school children are in alternative schools or specialized http://www.dropoutprevention.org/effstrat/alt_school/altsch_over.htm

home site map contact Back to Effective Strategies Alternative Schooling Overview Alternative Schools Are Not Really New Need for Alternative Schools Alternative schooling does meet the variety of student and family needs and the social behaviors required for youth in today's world. Alternative schooling also offers school and community leaders the opportunity to fulfill their legal responsibility to provide equal access to education for all students. The most critical question that must then be answered is what kind of alternative schooling should be designed and offered in our public schools? What should the alternative programs look like and how should they be integrated with the regular school programs in each community? The most recent review of Charter Schools by the U.S. Department of Education found that there were 1,050 charter schools operating in the school year 1997-98 in 27 states and the District of Columbia (Berman, et. al., 1999). The survey also reported that 33 states now have charter legislation and that 160,000 students are currently served by the states with operating charter schools. The most prevailing reasons to establish charter school were to realize an alternative vision of schooling and to gain autonomy from district and state regulations.

51. Resource Guide: About Issues Facing High Schools StateSponsored schools/Programs alternative education programs of programs such ascontinuation schools and the Options Office of the california Department of http://www.edsource.org/pub_edfct_abouths.cfm

Advanced Search Resource Guide: About Issues Facing High Schools August 2002 To Learn More About Students To Learn More About Standards To Learn More About High School Reform To Learn More About Students Peer culture, disengagement, and motivation Lawrence Steinberg’s Beyond the Classroom: Why School Reform has Failed and What Parents Need to Do www.SimonSays.com The effects of student poverty and mobility Russell W. Rumberger, et. al., examine the impact and causes of mobility among high school students in their study, The Educational Consequences of Mobility for California Students and Schools (1999). To obtain a copy of the report, call Policy Analysis for California Education at 510/642-7223 or go to pace.berkeley.edu Rumberger's nationally focused Student Mobility and Academic Achievement (2002) considers how the newly reauthorized Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act ( ESEA ) will affect student mobility and, consequently, dropout rate. Strategies for working with immigrant youth Educators interested in strategies to overcome barriers for immigrant youth should see Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Children in U.S. Secondary Schools

52. American Association Of School Administrators - The School Administrator He works with five california high schools engaged in curriculum redesign, performancebasedassessment and development of alternative transcripts that give http://www.aasa.org/publications/sa/1997_12/pardini_sidebar_experiments.htm

search site awards and scholarships career center conferences education marketplace ... home The School Administrator Web Edition December 1997 High Schools Experiment With Alternative Transcripts BY Priscilla Pardini If putting alternative report cards in place in elementary schools is easier said than done, consider the situation in the typical high school. "There's a perception out there that you can't restructure the high school curriculum or the way in which you assess high school students because of college entrance requirements," says Glenn Singleton, director of the Transitions Project, based in Palo Alto, Calif. Singleton says that isn't so. He works with five California high schools engaged in curriculum redesign, performance-based assessment and development of alternative transcripts that give colleges and employers "a fuller picture of a student's performance and potential." The Transitions Project, run by the California Center for School Restructuring, is a partnership among the five high schools, the University of California and California State University systems, the College Board, Educational Testing Service and the Bay Area Coalition of Essential Schools. Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif., joined the project in 1995 after several years of trying on its own to restructure the courses being offered. By then, about a fourth of the staff and a third of the students were involved in a series of integrated courses organized around real-world issues that require them to apply their knowledge. Students work collaboratively with a common group of teachers for an extended period.

53. Stanislaus County Office Of Education Complete list of school districts and schools serving the county, alphabetized by district name.Category Regional North America Education School Districts...... School Walter White Elementary * california Distinguished School Modesto Cityschools Districts. Modesto High School Elliot alternative Education Center. http://www.stan-co.k12.ca.us/index/districts.html

The following is a list of schools and school districts served by the Stanislaus County Office of Education. As each district comes on-line, a hypertext link will be added to that district's name. ABC D E FG ... Argus High School - California Model Continuation School Blaker Kinser Junior High Carroll Fowler Elementary Caswell Elementary Ceres High School ... Sam Vaughn Elementary - California Distinguished School Virginia Parks Elementary * - California Distinguished School Walter White Elementary * - California Distinguished School Westport Elementary - Title I Exemplary School Chatom Union School District Chatom School Mountain View School Denair Unified School District Denair Elementary School Denair Middle School Denair High School Empire Union School District Capistrano Elementary School *

54. University Of California White Mountain Research Station - Alternative Energy De will establish the University of california as a throughout the region to schools,service clubs These materials will explain alternative energy production http://www.wmrs.edu/hydrogen/altenergywhitepaper.htm

Summit Laboratory Barcroft Laboratory Cam Nevada Zenith Crooked Creek Owens Valley ... Building WMRS DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND OUTREACH CENTER AT THE WHITE MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The goals of the project are to ensure a long term, stable, environmentally clean, and economically efficient power source for WMRS, and to use WMRS as a location for research, training, integration, testing and validation of state-of-the-art energy-production equipment and associated hard- and software. Specific objectives are: Convert to the use of renewable power sources for all WMRS buildings and observatories, and involve the UC in collaboration with local utilities (DWP and SCE) and government agencies to expand renewable energy at both WMRS and the Inyo-Mono county area; Decouple the upper facilities from the commercial power grid; Use all WMRS facilities for research, testing and validation of advanced, integrated energy devices and training in the operation and safety procedures of renewable distributed utility equipment and associated hard- and software; Develop upper facilities as a premier public demonstration of a remote, standalone, integrated and distributed renewable energy economy that would provide an operating and continually evolving model for sustainable community design.

55. Welcome To The Mercury News On Bayarea.com closed or consolidated a handful of its alternative schools. A look at those changesand the schools still ( 02 grew even faster, leaving california with budget http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/sun/news/local/archive.htm

Click here to visit other RealCities sites Help Contact Us Site Index ... News by Email Search Search the Archives MAIN SECTIONS NEWS CLASSIFIEDS OPINION LIFESTYLES ... NEWSPAPER ADS ONLINE MORE IRAQ COVERAGE WAR WITH IRAQ ARCHIVE FACES OF WAR RESOURCES ... PHOTOS News Local News San Jose/Valley Cupertino/Sunnyvale Los Gatos/Saratoga ... Special Reports Want more local news? MercuryNews.com is your number one local news source. More local news S.J. teen among 5 killed, 9 injured in van crash RELIGIOUS GROUP WAS HEADED TO MONASTERY NEAR BARSTOW Five passengers, including a San Jose girl, were killed Saturday on the way to a religious retreat when their van went out of control and overturned on Interstate 15 near Barstow, the California Highway Patrol said. ( By Michael Cronk and Joshua L. Kwan, Mercury News, 03/30/2003 03:01 AM PST) TAKING BREAK FROM ANXIETY BAY AREA RESIDENTS FIND WAYS TO ESCAPE WAR NEWS There's nothing like a sunny spring day to lure people out of the house. But the warm weather wasn't the only factor at work Saturday: Many said they needed to get away from the constant drone of war news from Iraq. ( By Glennda Chui, Connie Skipitares and Dennis Georgatos, Mercury News, 03/30/2003 03:01 AM PST)

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57. April 04, 2002 - Charter Schools Are Transforming Public Education: Is Anyone Ru atrisk students are improving at a faster rate in california's charter schools opena whorehouse than a charter school, very few alternative schools have been http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/040402.html

Subscribe to Weekly Column Email Charter Schools Are Transforming Public Education: Is Anyone Running For Office Paying Attention? Filed April 04, 2002 There are only 214 days left until the midterm election, and, like Diogenes going door-to-door in search of an honest man, Democratic Party strategists, desperate to win back the House, are wandering across the political wasteland in search of an issue to run on. They seem so lost: the economy is bouncing back, fear of an energy crisis has dimmed, Enron's stink has proved bipartisan and President Bush's wartime popularity has Republican candidates feeling smug enough to question the patriotism of any dissenters. (The only question is: when will the first "Can you trust your family's safety to Dick Gephardt?" ads hit the airwaves?) For some reason, politicians on both sides of the aisle, normally slavish poll-watchers, are choosing to ignore what voters, in poll after poll, are telling them: that education is among their top concerns often at number one. But finding a politician willing to talk about fundamental reform of America's education system beyond the president’s anemic Education Act is harder than locating a flat chest or a real one at the Playboy mansion.

58. Teacher Quality And Alternative Certification Programs for teaching New Jersey, Texas and california. that teachers certified through theiralternative routes perform Administrators in schools where these teachers http://www.ncei.com/Testimony051399.htm

Teacher Quality and Alternative Certification Programs by C. Emily Feistritzer Testimony before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, May 13, 1999 Teacher Quality and Alternative Certification Programs STATEMENT OF DR. C. EMILY FEISTRITZER President National Center for Education Information Washington, DC HOUSE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE SUBCOMMITTEE ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, TRAINING AND LIFE-LONG LEARNING Thursday, May 13, 1999 2175 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC The Administration and the Congress of the United States are being called upon again to respond to the growing need for more and better teachers. According to the latest teacher supply and demand projections, the nation will need to hire 2.2 million people to teach who are not currently teaching in the nation's elementary and secondary schools in the next decade. There is mounting concern about teacher preparation and the quality of the teaching force. Alarms have also been sounded about the numbers of teachers who are teaching "out of field", i.e., teaching a subject for which they have neither an academic major nor a minor.

59. Center For Voting And Democracy notify us at maritza@fairvote.org if you know of any schools not on our list thatuse an alternative voting method The california Institute of Technology. http://www.fairvote.org/irv/studentgov.htm

Adopting Fair Elections for Student Governments February 2003 Big Wins! Interest in fair elections systems for student elections around the country has been gaining momentum. More and more schools are using Instant Runoff Voting for single winner elections like student body president. And some schools have also added the Choice Voting method of full representation for their legislative elections. This has been evidenced by two recent victories at major U.S. universities. University of California at Davis On February 20, students at UCD voted 67%-33% to use choice voting for Associated Student Senate elections and IRV for presidential elections. The California Aggie reports on the change. Duke University Duke Student Government will elect their six executive committee members through instant runoff voting. After approving the system for this spring's elections, officials have since decided the ballot counting proceedures will not be ready until spring 2004. Read coverage of the change from The Chronicle Building on our Success To create a strong base to work from, we are currently compiling a list of Student Governments that engage in some kind of fair elections method. Below is a list of the schools we have found, and what system they use. The list is far from complete however, so please notify us at

60. American Libraries: News For March 1, 1999 A fiscal analyst for the california Legislature has called the $171 article reportedthat the schools involved are smaller or alternative schools, including the http://www.ala.org/alonline/news/1999/990301.html

THE MAGAZINE OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Go back to American Libraries home page Go to American Library Association home page SEARCH AMERICAN LIBRARIES News briefs for March 1, 1999 Jersey City Issues New RFP for Management Services The Jersey City, New Jersey, library board has issued a new request for proposals ruled that the board acted improperly in awarding a contract to Library Systems and Services, Incorporated. The new RFP, issued February 16, includes provisions guaranteeing civil service protections for staff and mandating that operational and capital funds will remain under the control of the board; both issues were involved in the court case. The Jersey Journal reported that Councilman Robert Cavanaugh told the library board that before relaunching the bidding process it should resolve a dispute over $25,000 the firm claims it is owed for the brief period it managed the library before the contract was voided. Al Cameron, library director of business affairs, responded that the library has a draft agreement settling the claim. Workers at British Library Set to Strike Financial Times reported February 23 that managers have said they will close the reading rooms rather than struggle with insufficient staff. The workers say they plan to follow the strike with 24-hour work stoppages throughout the month.

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