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Home Education Alternative High Schools ... Alternative Schools Near Gordon County, Georgia Top 5 To Try Alternative Schools Near Gordon County, Georgia By Maggie Worth eHow Contributor updated: May 20, 2010 I want to do this! What's This? school image by dinostock from Fotolia.com Alternative schools offer a more flexible environment than traditional public schools Alternative schools are public schools that provide a substitute for students who have been removed from regular classrooms due to repeated disruptive behavior. Prior to the Education Reform Act of 2000, Georgia offered grants to local school systems to operate alternative schools, called Crossroads Schools. Grants are no longer offered and each school system is required to provide an alternative program. However, the new regulations allow the use of in-school programs including in-school suspension to meet the requirement, so many school systems, including the Gordon County Schools and the City of Calhoun Schools have closed their freestanding alternative schools. Bartow County The Bartow Crossroads Academy is located in Bartow County, one county to the south of Gordon. This high school serves students in ninth to twelfth grades and is operated by the Bartow County School System. | |
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