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Recovery high schools: supportive education, not enough spaces.
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Child Protection Law Report
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April 1, 2006
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It is difficult to pinpoint when an approach used in a few places becomes a movement, but the time is at hand for recovery schools, tiny public and private high schools that serve students who have been in treatment for substance dependence and abuse and who seek an education away from former drug-using peers. Formed in 2002, the Association of Recovery Schools lists 20 high schools and several colleges as members.
The first recovery school was started in Minnesota in the late 1980s as a grassroots effort to help high school students stay clean and sober, Andrew J. Finch, the Director of ARS and Community High School in Nashville, Tenn., told CPLR. He said that recovery ...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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