Patients are given much more individual care and can take part in special programs.

She is one of four students taking part in the program at the school.

But taking part in the program has also given him other opportunities.

The school expects every student to take part in the program.

"More important, we can locate some of the others who took part in the program."

A school could decide not to take part in the program if a committee of teachers and parents voted to do so.

York is the first Connecticut prison to take part in the program.

This year, 2,700 students who took the test last fall received invitations to take part in the program.

Louis Rodriguez, now 27, took part in the first program, and says most did not mind.

He said nearly a third of all high school students took part in community-service programs.