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Utah Educator Wins Sliderocket Grant for Virtual School
A teacher at the Open High School of Utah has been awarded a grant to provide her entire school with subscriptions to a cutting-edge presentation website, writes the Association of American Educators....
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Study: “No Evidence” of Effectiveness of Cyber Schools
The Great Lake Center for Education Research and Practice finds that full-time virtual schools are expanding despite no high-quality evidence that they are effective. The report – “Online K-12...
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The Business Behind Florida’s Internet Schools
Florida has been seen as an innovator in education reform, being one of the first states to undertake a program of “virtual schools where charters operated online, with teachers instructing students...
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Iowa Launches Virtual Academy, an Online Public School
Families in Iowa can now consider an online public school as a viable and innovative option as the Clayton Ridge Community School District has announced the launch of the Iowa Virtual Academy (IAVA)....
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Jindal Calls for More Virtual Programs Across Louisiana
The big drive behind Governor Bobby Jindal’s education reform in 2012 is the creation of more choice for Louisiana students and their parents. The “choices” he’s after mostly come in the form of...
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K12 Inc Class Sizes Double That of State-Run Online Schools
According to corporate documents obtained by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and StateImpact Florida, the number of students overseen by a single teacher at Florida online schools...
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Cerf Surprises in New Jersey with Virtual Charter School Rejection
New Jersey Stare Education Commissioner Chris Cerf denied the final approval for two proposed online charter schools. A K-12 charter school in Newark and a high school for dropouts in Monmouth and...
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Alabama County to Consider Expanding Through Online Education
Alabama’s Baldwin County School District is considering handling an overcrowding crisis by introducing a full-time online education program, Sally Pearsall Ericson of AL.com reports. School board...
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Massachusetts’ First Virtual High School on Probation
The Massachusetts Virtual Academy at Greenfield Commonwealth Virtual School has been put on probation by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The 20-month probation, which comes...
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