New approach for troubled students in New Orleans

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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