A Learning Community by and for High School Students
Mission
To engage a global network of alternative high school students, teachers and schools in pursuit of a meaningful and relevant high school education.
Purpose
To inspire alternative high school students to realize their potential to achieve personal success and to make positive changes in their lives and communities.
Objectives
Apply a holistic, team-oriented, standards-driven, project-based, problem-solving approach to learning in a multi-disciplinary setting, and provide a catalyst for alternative high school students to cooperatively confront real issues and address problems.
Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
