Section 58500 Of Chapter 3. Alternative Schools From California Education Code >> Division 4. >> Title 2. >> Part 31. >> Chapter 3.
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. The governing board of any school district may establish and
maintain one or more alternative schools within the district.
For the purposes of this article, an alternative school is defined
as a school or separate class group within a school which is
operated in a manner designed to:
(a) Maximize the opportunity for students to develop the positive
values of self-reliance, initiative, kindness, spontaneity,
resourcefulness, courage, creativity, responsibility, and joy.
(b) Recognize that the best learning takes place when the student
learns because of his desire to learn.
(c) Maintain a learning situation maximizing student
self-motivation and encouraging the student in his own time to follow
his own interests. These interests may be conceived by him totally
and independently or may result in whole or in part from a
presentation by his teachers of choices of learning projects.
(d) Maximize the opportunity for teachers, parents and students to
cooperatively develop the learning process and its subject matter.
This opportunity shall be a continuous, permanent process.
(e) Maximize the opportunity for the students, teachers, and
parents to continuously react to the changing world, including but
not limited to the community in which the school is located.