Alternative School Programs and Pushout

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Texas' School to Prison Pipeline: School Expulsion - The Path from Lockout to Lockup (2010) (Document)

This report from Texas Appleseed documents the overrepresentation of minority and special education students in expulsions from Texas schools -- particularly for non-criminal Student Code of Conduct violations (April 2010).

Improving "Alternative Education for Disruptive Youth" in Pennsylvania (2010) (Document)

A report on Pennsylvania’s program of alternative education for disruptive youth (“AEDY”). Created about fifteen years ago, the program has grown dramatically, to the point that it now serves some 30,000 students in 614 locations – the equivalent of the third largest school district in the state.

Using Transfers to Alternative Schools to Avoid Responsibility for Low-Performing Students in California (Document)

"Improving Alternative Education in California," Legislative Analyst's Office (2007).

Disciplinary Alternative Schools and the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track in Texas (Document)

"Schooling a New Class of Criminals? Better Disciplinary Alternatives for Texas Students," Texas Public Policy Foundation Center for Effective Justice (2006).

Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs Feed Students into the School to Prison Pipeline in Texas (Document)

"Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs," pp. 47-69, in Discipline, Achievement, & Race: Is Zero Tolerance the Answer? (2006).

Successful Strategy to Combat Illegal School Discharges in New York City (Document)

"School Push-Outs: An Urban Case Study," Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy, 684 (2005).

Populations That Attend Alternative Schools, Entrance and Exit Criteria, and Resource (Document)

"Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students at Risk of Education Failure: 2000-01," National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC, Westat, Inc. (2002).

More Research Needed to Measure Effectiveness of Alternative Schools for At-Risk Youth (Document)

"Alternative Education: A Brief History and Research Synthesis," National Association of State Directors of Special Education (2002).

History and Characteristics of Ineffective and Effective Alternative Schools (Document)

"Alternative Education Programs: Empowerment or Entrapment?" pp.

Legislated Alternative Schools for Students with Behavior Problems are Not Accomplishing Goals (Document)

"Schools for Disruptive Students: A Questionable Alternative?" Appalachia Educational Laboratory, Inc (1998).

Meta-Analysis Finds that Alternative Schools Have Small Impact on Student Success (Document)

"A Meta-Analytic Assessment of Delinquency-Related Outcomes of Alternative Education Programs," Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 41, No. 2, (1995).

Continuation Schools Lead to Student Disengagement in California (Document)

Last Chance High: How Girls and Boys Drop In and Out of Alternative Schools, Yale University Press (1993).