Relying on attendance rather than enrollment hurts urban districts with many high-risk students who do not attend class every day.

Traditional models of discipline are not effective with high-risk students.

Care for teachers - support provided to teachers with 'high-risk' students.

It was created as a charter school in 2000, previously serving high-risk students as the First Resort alternative school.

This project will serve a diverse female population, many of whom are high-risk students, under-prepared for college or typically do not consider further education as an alternative.

The district operates six comprehensive high schools and Compadre Academy, an alternative school for high-risk students.

"We regard them as high-risk students, meaning they might be on the verge of dropping out."

The most coordinated effort to create more campus schools occurred in 1985, when Dr. Murphy persuaded the Legislature to finance four high schools for high-risk students.

Mr. Calandro said these institutions had such a high student loan default rate because they were willing to take a chance on high-risk inner-city students.

This figure does not include additional costs of intensive services for high-risk students.