Called Sobriety High School, the program is designed to keep students in recovery away from friends at former schools who influenced them to drink or use drugs.

"Sending a kid back to school where there's a bunch of using friends is like sending a drunk back to a bar," said Jim Czarniecki, chief executive of Sobriety High, one of the few recovery schools in the country.

Currently, Sobriety High runs two private programs in Edina and Maplewood. Program officials are working towards becoming a charter school sponsored by Dakota County's Intermediate School District 917.

The charter school, which would be publicly funded, is expected to open its campus in Dakota County in the fall of 2004.

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