How to Use alternative school in a Sentence

alternative school

noun
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  • The district office will then be used by students at Canyon Springs High School, the district’s alternative school.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 July 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
  • 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
  • Many of the other one-star schools were alternative schools in counties across the state.
    — Liz Bowie, baltimoresun.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Right Here, a Des Moines alternative school for at-risk youths.
    — Ryan J. Foley The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 27 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • He had been kicked out of Douglas High, and had been bounced around to various alternative schools.
    — David Ovalle, miamiherald, 22 June 2018
  • 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
  • In May, the district held a town hall meeting with Howey residents about the alternative school.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 8 Aug. 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
  • Ocean Shores High as a public alternative school in 1974.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2022
  • 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 highest rates by far were at special or alternative schools.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The student was assigned to the alternative school earlier this year, the press release states.
    — Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • At 14, he's sent to an alternative school after losing his temper in a big way.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • At 14, he was sent to an alternative school in Manhattan.
    — Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hill and others say the alternative school will be small and well staffed, with a therapeutic focus.
    — Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • He’s worked at elementary schools and middle schools and high schools and an alternative school.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 July 2021
  • The student has been sent to an alternative school, but some parents said 20 days in that environment would not be enough to make students feel safe or to help the one who made threats.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Olson was teaching at the alternative school, and Witt was a Dakota County sheriff's deputy there.
    — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Bossier Parish Schools has 34 elementary, middle and high schools and one alternative school, the district said.
    — Anneclaire Stapleton, CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The City Council and others have referenced it as an alternative school.
    — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018

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