Magnet schools are public schools which offer specialized programs. They are generally designed and located so as to attract students to otherwise unpopular areas or schools, and are often created to promote racial balance. Post-secondary options enable high school students to enroll in college courses at government expense that may contribute to high school graduation requirements. Second-chance options are alternative programs for students who have difficulties in standard public school settings. Most often these students have either dropped out, are pregnant or parenting, have been assessed as chemically dependent, or have been expelled from their previous school.
Charter schools are publicly-sponsored autonomous schools.
They are substantially free of direct administrative control by the government but are held accountable for achieving certain specified outcomes. Workplace training programs are apprenticeships which teach students a skilled trade not offered through present vocational training. Costs are divided between the employer and the school district. Voucher plans constitute a system of fixed value certificate or cash payments by the government which enable public school students to attend schools of their choice, public or private. Tuition tax credits constitute a system of funding choice which allows parents to receive credit against their income tax to subsidize non-public school tuition for their children.