How to Use alternative school in a Sentence

alternative school

noun
  • Many of the other one-star schools were alternative schools in counties across the state.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The highest rates by far were at special or alternative schools.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Many parents have kept their children in those alternative schools.
    — Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
  • About a year before the attack, Cruz was kicked out of the school and sent to an alternative school.
    — NBC News, 10 July 2018
  • Right Here, a Des Moines alternative school for at-risk youths.
    — Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
  • For many black boys like David, the district’s alternative schools have often been the last stop on the way out.
    — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 11 Dec. 2019
  • High schools had to have fewer than 400 students and not be an alternative schools.
    — Shawna Chen, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Why parents who moved kids to alternative schools amid pandemic are keeping them there.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
  • At 14, he's sent to an alternative school after losing his temper in a big way.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Hill and others say the alternative school will be small and well staffed, with a therapeutic focus.
    — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Pregnant and abused, a Harlem teen enrolls in an alternative school in an attempt to bring value to her life.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The students were expelled for varying lengths of time, and each could be transferred at some point to an alternative school, school board records show.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Aurora Beacon-News, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The player was not attending class, so he was forced to withdraw from the alternative school, Scott said.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The student was assigned to the alternative school earlier this year, the press release states.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • He had been kicked out of Douglas High, and had been bounced around to various alternative schools.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 22 June 2018
  • But the notice also states the family will not be able to appeal the referral to an alternative school.
    — Chandelis Duster, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The school district reduced the expulsions to a year for six of the teenagers and permitted them to enroll in alternative schools.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Juan cut class, was suspended and was even sent to an alternative school before he was matched with McCarthy.
    — Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2020
  • But the state does not require districts to specify the reason a student is transferred to an alternative school.
    — Tara García Mathewson, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • So for now, the girls are waiting at home until the principal makes her decision on whether or not (or how long) to send the girls to alternative school.
    — Alexis Hobbs, Woman's Day, 15 Jan. 2016
  • In May, the district held a town hall meeting with Howey residents about the alternative school.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Her punishment would be three days of suspension followed by 73 days — the rest of eighth-grade — in an alternative school.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Sadly, the price of an alternative school was too high, and she was forced to send her children to public schools marred by gang violence and bullying.
    — Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • Where the elite ultimately go to the elite institutions, and then someone else went to, like, the alternative school.
    — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • She was well known for her support of school choice and school voucher programs, which allow parents to take federal funds and use them for alternative schools.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The City Council and others have referenced it as an alternative school.
    — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • When Kamal was fifteen, the Iraq war began and both boys were safe in the public school district’s alternative school.
    — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Two years ago, nine students at an alternative school on the north side of Chicago spent part of their summer playing a video game named Bystander.
    — Rachel Stone, The New Republic, 15 May 2018
  • The school then served as a public high school for Black students and, after desegregation, as an alternative school.
    — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • His parents gave Cruz their guest bedroom, got him a job and drove him to an alternative school every day to work on his GED.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018

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