Independent Education And Parental Choice Non-Public Schools They provide an alternative to the traditional K12 public school system. Privateschools in florida are not licensed, approved, accredited or regulated by the http://www.firn.edu/doe/choice/ik12priv.htm
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Independent Education And Parental Choice Non-Public Schools florida Regional Accreditation Council Corp National Association For The Legal SupportOf alternative schools (NALAS) Ed Nagel, Coordinator PO Box 2823 Santa Fe http://www.firn.edu/doe/choice/accredit.htm
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Welcome To Break Away - The Alternative Break Connection! florida Campus Compact is funding registration scholarships for 10 florida collegestudents to attend the alternative Break Citizenship schools (ABCs). http://www.alternativebreaks.org/abcs.asp
Extractions: Florida Campus Compact is funding registration scholarships for 10 Florida college students to attend the Alternative Break Citizenship Schools (ABCs). If you are a student or staff representative of a college in Florida, click here to download an application for free registration. Applications are due by May 24 Orbitz is sponsoring airfare for selected students to attend the Alternative Break Citizenship Schools. Contact Break Away at breakaway@alternativebreaks.org for more information. The Alternative Break Citizenship schools (ABCs) combine the synergy and networking opportunities of a national conference with the personal and team growth aspects of an intimate leadership training. We take it one step further and present all activities within the dynamic atmosphere of a quality alternative break experience. Put together workshops , service projects, community interaction, speaker panels, teambuilding, discussions, and reflection and you've got the ABCs - an experience like no other. Participants are able to synthesize knowledge and skills gained during workshops with inspiring and educational contact with the community and with leaders from campuses nationwide. Read below to find out more about how the Alternative Break Citizenship schools are structured or click on one of the links above to learn more about this summer's opportunities in Boston and Miami.
Welcome To Break Away - The Alternative Break Connection! Texas A M University, College Station, TX. University of florida, Gainsville, FL. oneleader to the annual Break Away alternative Break Citizenship schools http://www.alternativebreaks.org/chapterprogram.asp
Extractions: The Chapter Program will establish a strong relationship between Break Away and your program based on mutual accountability and investment on each other's behalf. Chapters develop break programs that include the eight components of a quality alternative break program: direct service, orientation, education, training, reflection, re-orientation, diversity, and alcohol and other drug free. Break Away Program Directors are available for individual consultation regarding any and all special needs that your school might have. Annual Chapter dues are $150 for Associate Chapters and $500 for Advantage Chapters. D O WNLOAD A ... APPLICATION by clicking on t his link Chapter Benefits Exclusive use of the Break Away Name and Logo - The Break Away name and logo are registered service marks for the organization. Since these marks represent a commitment to quality alternative break programs, including thorough pre-trip preparation and effective post-trip activities that far exceed most volunteer vacation experiences, only groups affiliating with Break Away and its philosophies have permission to use the name and logo. Access to the Break Away SiteBank and Trip Report Database - Break Away works with hundreds of schools and community groups nationwide. More than 250 nonprofit organizations list their volunteer opportunities in the Break Away SiteBank database. Those looking for alternative break volunteer opportunities can quickly access a profile of these agencies, including site fees, sample work projects, housing options, and more. Chapter Schools can also share feedback on these nonprofit "Host Sites" through the Trip Report database, accessible through the members area.
HISTORY OF LEON COUNTY SCHOOLS the district purchased from the Primitive Baptist Church of florida what was schools. 19elementary; 6 middle; 4 senior high; 1 alternative school; 1 vocational http://www.leon.k12.fl.us/Public/History/history.html
Extractions: HISTORY OF LEON COUNTY SCHOOLS Local efforts for a kindergarten program began in 1905 when a law suggested by the Tallahassee Womans Club was introduced and passed by the Legislature. The first public kindergarten provided in Leon County, in 1916, cost $1,600 to build and equip. Kindergartens were discontinued at Caroline Brevard and Sealey in 1941. The present kindergarten program was initiated in 1968 with 21 classes in 11 schools. Many of the earlier schools were small frame buildings. Through a gradual consolidation program the total number of schools was reduced from: Year Schools 32 (19 elementary; 6 middle; 4 senior high; 1 alternative school; 1 vocational/technical center; and 1 exceptional child center) 35 (22 elementary, 8 middle, 4 high school, 1 alternative school, 1 vocational/technical center; and many district-wide program centers.) 1997-98 Student enrollment: PK-5 . . . . . . . 15,702 District-wide. . 4,606 Public funds expended for education reflect the growth of population, public interest in providing education for all interested citizens and the upsurge of the economic life of the county, state, and country. The picture of the trend in total expenditures for education in Leon County is as follows: Year Amount Since 1868, 17 individuals have served as the Superintendent of the Leon County Schools. The present Superintendent, Bill Montford, has been in office since November of 1996. Superintendent Montford is the eleventh superintendent to serve since 1917 so there have been long periods of operation under the same leadership, giving some stability to the system.
Extractions: HOME ABOUT M.I. CCI CLP ... CONTACT Site Navigation Support M.I. Scholars' Articles M.I. Issues Subscribe to City Journal Board of Trustees Staff Directory Links M.I. Book Catalog Internship Opportunities Join email updates Education Working Paper No. 2 August 2003 Education Working Paper 2 PDF WHAT THE PRESS SAID email this When Schools Compete: Floridas A+ Program may be the most controversial education reform program in the country, because it combines two extremely contentious education reforms: vouchers and high-stakes testing. Floridas high-stakes test, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), is used to grade schools on a scale from A to F. If a school receives two F grades in any four-year period, it is considered to be chronically failing and its students become eligible to receive vouchers they can use to attend other public or private schools. The theory behind the A+ Program is that chronically failing public schools will have an incentive to improve if they must compete with other schools for students and the funding they generate. This study identifies five categories of low-performing schools based on the degree of threat each school faces from voucher competition: Voucher Eligible Schools (where students are already receiving vouchers), Voucher Threatened Schools (where one more F will make vouchers available), Formerly Threatened Schools (which used to be Voucher Threatened but no longer are), and two categories of similarly low-performing schools not facing any immediate threat of voucher competition. It then examines test score improvements on the FCAT and on the Stanford-9, a nationally respected standardized test, to see whether low-performing schools facing a greater degree of threat from voucher competition made better improvements than low-performing schools facing a lesser degree of threat from vouchers.
Miami Magnet/Alternative Schools a variety of magnet, vocational and alternative educational programs to to MiamiMiamiDade sBest SchoolsPF Chang s BistroHow to Get a florida Driver s License. http://miami.about.com/b/a/045543.htm
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Extractions: Early On Lead Poisoning Positive Behavior Support No Child Left Behind ... Detroit Parent Network Where to find help for a child in Michigan Anywhere in the U.S. , or Canada What's New? Help Text Menu ... Translate Last Updated: Article of Interest - Home Schools Print er-friendly Version Home Schooling an Increasingly Popular Alternative for S. Florida Families by Karla D. Shores, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, August 18, 2003 For more articles like this visit http://www.bridges4kids.org These students know their teachers extremely well. They're never late for school. Have no need for cell phones. And, as the very practical 11-year-old Danielle Howard of Delray Beach puts it, "You get out really early, there's no head lice and no school bullies." Unless mischievous siblings count.
ERIC/CEM - School Choice Discussion and technologyoriented high schools, such as Tallahassee s florida UniversitySchool, are further examples of successful alternative-school offerings for http://eric.uoregon.edu/trends_issues/choice/alternative_schools.html
Extractions: Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management "Search Help" Note that this is a web site search and will not search our databases ("Directory of Organizations", "In-Process Abstracts", the ERIC Database , "Publications"). Abstracts Discussion Links References ... Resources Alternative Schools Devoting a separate category to "alternative schools" is somewhat inexact, as every option discussed under School Choice represents an alternative to conventional or mainstream public education. Prospective founders of magnet and charter schools would surely profit by revisiting surviving alternative schools' early experiences (Dunn 2000), whether based on Waldorf, Montessori, Summerhill, or more pragmatic philosophies. To this list, Daniel Drake (2000) would add several "responsive" public-school varieties, such as Comer Process schools, full-service schools, immersion programs, schools-within-schools, and middle schools. Schooling alternatives have existed for centuries in many nations. By the end of the 1800s, public schools in the U.S. were flourishing. Many children attended church-sponsored schools; "some affluent families educated their children at expensive and exclusive boarding schools or at local private schools" (Koetke 1999). Koetke (1999), a classroom teacher, notes the immense variety embedded in the term
Health, Alternative, Acupuncture And Chinese Medicine: Schools American Institute of alternative Medicine Professional Masters Level Arizona Schoolof Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Offers Fort Lauderdale, florida. http://www.combose.com/Health/Alternative/Acupuncture_and_Chinese_Medicine/Schoo
Extractions: Top Health Alternative Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine ... Academy for Five Element Acupuncture - Master's level program in classical Five Element Acupuncture. Hallandale, Florida. Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences - Master of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine degree program. Oakland, California. Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin - Offers accredited Master of Science in Oriental Medicine, Oriental bodywork. Austin, Texas. Acupuncture Research Group - Research and education in acupuncture, TCM and low-level laser treatment. University of Innsbruck, Austria. American College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine - Offers Master of Science in Oriental Medicine. Houston, Texas. American College of Acupuncture - Acupuncture training for physicians, dentists and veterinarians. Training in New York, New York and China. American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine - Specializes in Chinese herbal medicine. Four-year M.S. degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine. San Francisco, California. American Institute of Alternative Medicine - Professional Masters Level Acupuncture Program offered in Columbus, Ohio.
Alternative Schools Stonesoup School Crescent City, florida Accepting male students ages 10 School hasevolved as a public alternative, learner-centered school for ages 5 http://www.educationrevolution.org/alschool.html
Extractions: Albany Free School The Free School is a process which must be experienced to be fully appreciated. The kids themselves make the choice to join us, after a week's visit (we do not leave that decision to parents alone) and since the changes they may want and need to make occur only over time and the space to discover for themselves who they really are, we ask parents for a commitment to allow their children to stay in the school for at least a year, so that the value we have for them can be fully realized. Alpine Valley School - Based on the Sudbury Valley School (see below), Alpine Valley is a place dedicated to freedom, respect and the joy of learning. Here, learning occurs as that magical state of being fully engaged and freely exploring your interests, gifts and talents. True freedom and responsibility emerge from trust and respect. Every student is a part of all school decisions and stands on equal footing with the staff and each other. Alternative Community School (Ithaca, NY) - ACS is a small middle school/high school, grades 6 through 12. There are about 260 students, who are accepted to ACS through random draw from the applicant pool. ACS is a public school, and there are no fees or tuition. We are an alternative to traditional schools, in our curricular and school governance philosophies. We believe in being both a community within our school and being part of the larger Ithaca community. Australian Correspondance School - "Established in 1979, ACS has educated thousands of full and part-time students, many of whom have gone onto successful employment, both in industry or in their own businesses. Others have used their courses to develop a hobby, or simply broaden their general education. We currently have over 2500 students enrolled from Australia and around the world." (quoted fromtheir web site).
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Extractions: May we suggest considering I.R.G. Designs I.R.G. Designs is a new business run by a graduate of the Albany Free School , a democratic school in Upstate New York. I.R.G. Designs just finished the basic web package, uniquely tailored, for the Brooklyn Free School , a new democratic school set to open in the fall of 2004. Feel free to visit www.IRGdesigns.com or e-mail info@irgdesigns.com for more information.
Extractions: site index ED.gov Home Publications ... Data Download Page 8 of 11 Table of Contents Executive Summary Introduction Availabality and enrollment in public alternative schools and programs for student at risk of education failure Alternative schools and programs for students at risk fo education failure. Entrance and exit criteria ... References Sample Selection Information from the pilot study helped guide the allocation of the total sample to the two major categories of districts: districts that reported alternative schools in the CCD and those that did not report alternative schools in the CCD. Within each category, the samples were further allocated to district size strata (less than 2,500, 2,500 to 9,999, 10,000 or more) in rough proportion to the aggregate square root of the enrollment in the stratum. The sampling frame was also ordered by metropolitan status (urban, suburban, rural) and region (Northeast, Southeast, Central, West) to induce additional implicit stratification. Within each primary stratum, districts were selected systematically and with equal probabilities. The sampling frame constructed consisted of 14,619 regular public school districts during the 199899 school year. After the stratum sample sizes were determined, a final sample of 1,609 districts was systematically selected from the sorted file using independent random starts. The 50 states and the District of Columbia were included in the sample, while school districts in the outlying U.S. territories were excluded. Districts are of three types: unified, secondary, and elementary. Unified districts serve students across all grade levels and comprised 83 percent of the total sample (table A-1). Secondary districts comprised 2 percent, and elementary districts (i.e., serving grades no higher than grade 8) comprised 15 percent of the sample.
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Extractions: Schools, Training and Licensure: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine Accredited Colleges in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine , Doc Misha's Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine The Alternative Medicine College of Canada (AMCC) "offers accredited correspondence courses in naturopathy, homeopathy, and holistic medicine" American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges American Association of Naturopathic Physicians Education and Licensing American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) ... American Reflexology Certification Board : "protect the public and promote the advancement of the field through the recognition of competent reflexologists who practice on a professional basis and chose to be recognized as meeting basic national standards Art Therapy Credentials Board : "an independent organization, grants postgraduate registration (ATR) after reviewing documentation of completion of graduate education and postgraduate supervised experience. The Registered Art Therapist who successfully completes the written examinationadministered by the ATCB is qualified as Board Certified (ATR-BC), a credential requiring maintenance through continuing education credits" Australasian College of Herbal Studies Australasian College of Natural Therapies Sydney, Australia
Ishmael Community Schools Using Ishmael And Other Quinn Books and Creative, Colorado s Finest alternative High Schol; HS, Hyde School, The TaftSchool; Europe Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; florida florida State University http://www.ishmael.com/Origins/Ishmael/Companion/schools.cfm
Extractions: Make people formulate their own questions. Don't take on the responsibility of figuring out what their difficulty is. Never try to answer a question you don't understand. Make the askers explain it; keep on insisting until it's clear, and nine times out of ten they'll supply the answer themselves. Beyond Civilization Check out the News and Information Announcements... Here are a few of the schools that are using Ishmael and other Quinn books:
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