Bread & Roses Integrated Arts High School was organized as a high school by two teachers from Crossroads Middle School in Community School District 3, and focuses on the arts and community development. Combining academic rigor with individual attention to children=s needs, the school serves a diverse mainstream population drawn from Community School Districts 3, 5 and 6 and uses the inclusion model for special education students. Community partners include the New Museum for Contemporary Art, ACORN, City College, and the Center for Social Imagination at Teachers College at Columbia University, the New York Historical Society, and STAR Theater at Mt. Sinai, Educational Video Center and Great Small Works. Bread and Roses was organized as a high school by teachers from Crossroads Middle School in Community School District 3, and focuses on the arts and community development.