the NCACS
Origins

 

In May 1976, several hundred representatives from alternative educational programs met in Chicago at the "Education for Change" conference. The participants refined a Statement of Objectives drafted in the early 1970s by alternative educators from upstate New York.

Based on this statement, the NCACS was founded in June 1978, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when its organizers formally adopted the following Preamble to the By-laws and Object and Purpose:

Preamble
We are a national coalition of schools, groups and individuals committed to creating an egalitarian society by actively working against racism, sexism, ageism, and all forms of social, political, and economic oppression.

Object and Purpose
The object and purposes of the Coalition are:

  1. To support an educational process which is alternative in intention, working to empower people to actively and collectively direct their lives;

  2. To support an educational process which is alternative in form, requiring the active control of education by the students, parents, teachers and community members who are most directly affected;

  3. To support an educational process which is alternative in content, developing tools and skills to work for social justice;

  4. The National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools is organized and operated exclusively for educational purposes as described in Section 501( C )( 3 ) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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