The movement toward improving education today in the US includes a strong focus on digital learning, an approach that involves a myriad of delivery mechanisms via online tools for students, no matter where they live or attend school. Online learning is opening up classrooms to the world. While not for all children, online public schools are providing NEW options for students and NEW choices for parents in public education.
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Guest Opinion: Legislation would put an end to cyber charter waste
March 20, 2019Pennsylvania makes up more than 20 percent of the total cyber charter school student ...
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Letter: Expand opportunities at Maine online schools
March 20, 2019Our daughter graduated from MCA last year. While in her senior year of high school, s ...
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Students at some Colorado online schools move around a lot. A bill to track them better advances.
March 19, 2019Lawmakers and education officials will take a closer look at turnover in online schoo ...
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Column: Fair evaluation of e-schools must consider mobility
March 19, 2019While every school district in America experiences mobility, online schools have the ...
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Local teenage silversmith overcomes bullying through online education, faith
March 18, 2019Growing up can be tough, especially if some of those tough situations include being b ...
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Letter: Judge each virtual school on its merits
March 18, 2019Last week Glenda Ritz wrote about the dismal performance of the Indiana Virtual Schoo ...
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Virtual Academy gains traction
March 18, 2019Seven months since Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools launched its Virtual Academy, scho ...
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Are Pa. school districts paying too much for cyber charter students?
March 15, 2019Penglase and other parents say the cybers are refuges from what they view as less-tha ...
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A virtual charter school ‘divorce’ leaves 2,400 students caught in the middle
March 14, 2019More than 2,400 students are caught in the middle of a fight between one of North Car ...
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New transparency reporting requirements for virtual charter schools advance to state Senate
March 14, 2019One of the few surviving measures aimed at adding new restrictions on virtual charter ...
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Letter: Online public school worked for this family
March 14, 2019We enrolled our son, Lucas, in Ohio Virtual Academy after he was bullied at his local ...
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Bill to stop use of state education funds for recruitment bonuses fails in Senate
March 13, 2019A measure to prohibit the use of state funds for recruitment bonuses for teachers fai ...
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Parents, students pack Capitol to tell lawmakers about ‘the array of reasons to choose Epic’
March 12, 2019Thousands of students and their parents descended on the state Capitol Monday to shar ...
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After Applying To Charter Schools Online, 2,500 Kansas City Families Now Have A Choice To Make
March 8, 2019Families of prospective charter school students who used a common application have re ...
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‘Very unique program:’ MPS uses ‘blended learning’ to help young refugees ad
March 6, 2019When children who are refugees find themselves in Milwaukee, they're often in th ...
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The House And Senate Have Approved Virtual Education Bills. Now What?
March 6, 2019Both the Senate and House have approved their own versions of a virtual education bil ...
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Where do Colorado’s online school students end up? Lawmakers want to know.
March 6, 2019Lawmakers want to get more information about enrollment at multi-district online scho ...
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Editorial: House Bill 1395 would give scrutiny to virtual charter schools
March 5, 2019State and federal law enforcement and the Oklahoma Legislature are reportedly taking ...
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New scrutiny: 15 people with ties to Epic Charter donated $180,000 to 78 candidates for state office
March 4, 2019The operators of Oklahoma’s rapidly expanding virtual charter school opened the ...
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Proposed law could save Pennsylvania school districts money, but be ‘death knell’ for cyber charters
March 4, 2019Proposed legislation in Harrisburg would save some Lehigh Valley school districts mil ...
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Almost 10,000 students went to this online school last year. 851 stayed the whole time
March 1, 2019Nearly 10,000 students attended Indiana Virtual School at some point last school year ...
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Bills target cyber costs
February 28, 2019Proposed legislation would provide financial relief for school districts but could di ...
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Column: SB 1, HB 5 will kill vital charter schools
February 27, 2019Major changes are coming to education in New Mexico. With a record high budget availa ...
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Troubled Indiana virtual schools poised to lose charters amid claims thousands of students werenR
February 27, 2019Two of the state’s largest, most troubled virtual schools were put on notice Mo ...
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Epic Charter Schools under investigation by state, federal law enforcement agencies
February 27, 2019Epic Charter Schools, the Oklahoma-based online education juggernaut, is now the targ ...
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ECOT gone for more than a year, but bitter court fights remain
February 26, 2019ECOT is gone from Ohio’s education landscape but not from Franklin County court ...
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Kids who go to school online don’t feel effects of snow days
February 26, 2019Snow days haven't impacted some eastern Iowa students because they go to school ...
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Cyber charter school costs are under the microscope
February 25, 2019Nonetheless, districts must budget hundreds of thousands of dollars — or millio ...
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Editorial: Online program good for schools
February 22, 2019As enrollment in Franklin County Public Schools declines, homeschooling has been on t ...
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Snow days prompt e-learning push across Illinois
February 22, 2019Illinois’ e-learning door was flung wide open last fall when the Illinois State ...