ABSTRACT
Koetke (1999) discusses other early educational opportuni ties and how they led to today's two basic options for alterna tive schooling-educational opportunities "outside the system" and those "inside the system." Alternative school opportunities outside the system include elite and costly private schools,
schools with a religious orientation, and the recently revived home schools. Alternative schools inside the system, according to Koetke, generally serve a special population, such as students with unique learning interests or disabilities, teenage parents, potential dropouts, violent individuals, or court-adjudicated youths and those in juvenile detention systems. These alterna tive schools will be the focus of the remainder of this chapter; they represent one of the effective strategies used to keep stu dents in school in pursuit of a high school diploma or GED.
