Alternative Education Overview:
Community Day Schools

Lou Denti, Ph.D.
Special Education Program
California State University, Monterey Bay

~ Introduction, Session 4~
Quick Write

• List five reasons a youth might be expelled from a high school.
  
• Define a Community Day School in California or describe your state’s alternative school or program for expelled youth.
  
• Each state has a Welfare and Institutions Code. From that code, summarize your state’s Welfare and Institution regulations related to juveniles under the age of 18 who offend the law or habitually refuse to obey the reasonable and proper orders of parents, guardians, or custodian, violate curfew, or are truant more than four days within one school year.

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