In Santa Paula, an 86-student continuation school treats a missing credit as a solvable problem - and a teenager's past as something other than a verdict.
On one road in Fairmont, West Virginia, three residential programs and a school sit close together. The harder task is connecting what happens there to life beyond the campus.
Fusion Academy built a national private-school network around an expensive, deceptively simple promise: one student, one teacher, one class at a time. The result is school recast as a bespoke service - flexible enough for a teenager's life, and intimate enough for a teacher to notice when the lesson is not landing.