"Some students, no matter where they attend school, are bound to break the rules.
But troublemakers in the Houston Independent School District are treated differently than most. They're outsourced to one of two campuses run by a private company, Community Education Partners, which is tasked with reforming their behavior and catching them up academically.
Most districts in Texas and nationwide run their own alternative schools for students with discipline problems. HISD's new superintendent, Terry Grier, announced this month that he's considering following suit and asking the school board to bring the $20 million-a-year alternative program in-house."