| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to clarify the alternative education system for youth at risk such as truancy, drug and alcohol abuse, delinquency, pregnant in Sonoma County, California. The United States continued working hard to guarantee public education for diverse students such as race and ethnicity, religion. As a result, historically, various educational alternatives are developed in the United States. However, there are few studies that clarified the alternative education system for at-risk youth in detail because it is very complicated and different by states and school districts. Focusing on Sonoma County, California, this paper is tried to draw the structure of alternative education system in detail. At first, it is outlined the educational alternatives using the report by public organizations such as California Department of Education and Sonoma County Office of Education etc. Through the analysis of these reports, it is cleared that there are two aspects of the alternative education system as "school district level" and "county level" in each county. Secondly, it is defined the school district level of educational alternatives as "In-School Suspension", "Independent Study" and "Community Day School". Thirdly, it is focusing on the county level of the alternative education system, especially "Community School Program" and "Court School Program". They are cleared by interview and document research. Multi agencies for example Probation Department, Human Services Department, Office of Education, and community based organizations (CBO) are collaborated for at-risk students in Community and Court Schools. That is to say, the Community and Court School system is established as the multi-agency resources. Finally, through this analysis, it is defined that the alternative education system as multi-agency resources has significance for juvenile delinquency prevention and treatment. At the same, it would be mentioned about problems of that system, too.
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