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Public Alternative Schools and Programs for Students At Risk of Education Failure: 2000-01
NCES: 2002004
August 2002

References

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U.S. Public Law 103-882. 103rd Cong., 2nd sess., 20 October, 1994. Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994.

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