Beginning with the SmartBrief for EdTech.
Online educator in Va. discusses obstacles, opportunities
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Va.) (6/9)
Also, from Education Week’s EdWeek Update.
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Philadelphia will soon join a number of other big-city school districts that have founded virtual schools as a way to expand school choices for parents and lure students back to their school systems.
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Educators are working to make sure the technologies elementary students are using are appropriate for their age and highly interactive.
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Back to the regular Google News alert for virtual school.
Technology gives birth to virtual schooling
Leader and Times
The 2013 Kansas Connections Academy graduating class gathers on stage Friday, May 31, in Wichita following the ceremony. Students from throughout the state attend the virtual school with an office based in Elkhart. Courtesy photo. By ROBERT PIERCE …
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Virtual school is on go to grow
Northwest Arkansas News
Arkansas’ 10-year-old, publicly funded, online home-school program for children in kindergarten through eighth grades is poised to grow to six times its current 500-pupil enrollment, making it the state’s largest independently run charter school.
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Florida Virtual School commencement points to new education trend
Seminole Chronicle
Saturday’s ceremony marked the first ever graduation for full-time students of the Florida Virtual School. The ceremony hosted 120 seniors, but FLVS’s first graduating class actually consisted of 350 students, including two students from Seminole County.
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Senate votes to freeze approval of virtual schools
Morning Sentinel
AUGUSTA – The state Senate on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would temporarily freeze the approval of publicly financed virtual charter schools. The Senate voted 22-13 to enact a moratorium on virtual schools amid concerns about the …
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Virtual school is on go to grow
Northwest Arkansas News
Arkansas’ 10-year-old, publicly funded, online home-school program for children in kindergarten through eighth grades is poised to grow to six times its current 500-pupil enrollment, making it the state’s largest independently run charter school.
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Technology gives birth to virtual schooling
Leader and Times
218 in Elkhart, students in that town can be educated right along with youth from Wichita and Kansas City through a free virtual public school. As a way to take young people outside the walls of a classroom, the Kansas Connections Academy started a few …
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The Foundation for Florida Virtual School and CenturyLink Provide Affordable …
Orlando Advacate (blog)
ORLANDO, Fla. (June 5, 2013) – The Foundation for Florida Virtual School (The Foundation) is excited to announce an alliance with CenturyLink to offer low-income families an affordable Internet option to help further students’ success. Currently, The …
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10 students receive diplomas from West Michigan Virtual School
Greenville Daily News
The West Michigan Virtual School in Greenville held its first graduation ceremony on Tuesday at the Greenville High School Performing Arts Center. Although there were 10 total graduates, nine walked on stage to receive their diplomas. — Daily News …
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Are Virtual Charter Schools Really a Good Idea?
TakePart
Online schools in Ohio have nearly doubled to more than 35,000 students. And nowhere is the appeal of virtual school more evident than in Pennsylvania, where the state has seen numbers break the 35,000 mark. Since 2010, there has been a 378 percent …
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Forest Hills Public Schools and Michigan Virtual University team up for summer …
The Grand Rapids Press – MLive.com
Friday, June 7, is the last day the school district will take registration forms for the Accelerated Learning program for high school students. There is a session that runs from June 10 through Aug. 2 and another from June 24 through Aug. 16. The …
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Maine Senate supports moratorium on virtual public charter schools
Bangor Daily News
AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill that would place a moratorium on the creation of virtual public charter schools in Maine passed through the Senate on Tuesday over objections that doing so would infringe on an already adequate approval process. LD 995, which …
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Texas Poised to Expand Virtual Education Through Online Network
Education Week News (blog)
Currently, the list of entities who can provide courses through the Texas Virtual School Network, a statewide entity that offers a catalogue of online classes, includes school districts, open-enrollment charter schools, and Texas higher education …
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State commission poised to deny Fox Valley virtual charter appeals
Aurora Beacon News
“Because Virtual Learning Solutions is proposing to open a virtual school in 2013, the establishment of that school would not comply with the charter law,” she wrote in a news release. “State law gives the commission the power to deny charter school …
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More questions about Illinois Policy Institute’s financial interest in …
ChicagoNow (blog)
Regardless of outcome, Illinois Policy Institute has some serious questions to answer about what it was really attempting to do with this virtual school plan and it may have at least a year to do it. Give or take. Unfortunately, in the case of Illinois …
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Rapides School Board approves job descriptions for new positions
Alexandria Town Talk
The director of middle schools/virtual school/magnet school/pre-K-12 schools must have a minimum of five years of educational experience in Rapides Parish or job-related experience. The description for school turnaround team specialist was amended to …
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Virtual Learning for Little Ones Raises Developmental Questions
Education Week News
The key, whether students are in a virtual school or a regular classroom that incorporates online learning, is to use technology in highly engaging ways for each age group, and to leave enough time offline for open-ended questions and lessons about …
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Rapides school board approves 8 new positions
KLFY
The job description for director of middle school education was amended to include virtual school, magnet schools and pre-K through 12th grade schools. This comes after discussion about certain positions, such as director of virtual programs, that no …
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Google Vs. Microsoft: Choosing Cloud Apps For Schools
InformationWeek SMB (blog)
According to Steve Nelson, director of the Oregon Virtual School District (OVSD), the state-wide effort started as a simple quest for broader email service for students. The cost of new licenses for so many students and teachers was daunting, so Oregon …
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Student Bullied in Baldwin Park Graduates from Virtual Academy
Patch.com
But thanks to CAVA, a tuition-free, full-time online public charter school for students in grades K-12, he was able to graduate last week with his virtual school peers. Being a CAVA student he could spend time on what he loved and with what he calls …
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COVA, K12 Inc. To Part Ways As K12 Proposes New School
KUNC
Related Content: Education. COVA Operator K12 Inc. Settles Investor Suit. Education. Overworked and Underpaid? Teacher Staffing at Colorado Virtual Academy. Education. Troubled K-12 Virtual School Receives 1-Year Charter Extension—With Conditions …
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Free apps for CBSE students
Khaleej Times
CLF e-School, a virtual school, delivers digital learning content for Class XI and Class XII students of CBSE curriculum. The content, which includes digital textbooks, enables students to access their course materials on all types of devices like …
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School board members learn more about virtual school
Basehor Sentinel
Basehor-Linwood High School and Basehor-Linwood Virtual School teachers Doug Earnhart and Michelle Vielhauer showed board members some of the teaching videos, assignments and websites that are used in the virtual school’s curriculum. BLVS is one …
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No suburban virtual charter school, for now
Chicago Daily Herald
… more than a dozen legal briefs from the districts and the applicants, State Charter School Commission Executive Director Jeanne Nowaczewski recommended denying the appeals, concluding that approval of the virtual school would violate the moratorium.
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Methods for finding company influence on virtual school policies
Reynolds Center
Colin says reporters need public records to determine what influence companies may have on creating virtual school policies. He used public records requests to get more than 1,000 pages of emails to find those connections. “One would want to seek …
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Local student graduates virtual school
Gaffney Ledger (subscription)
Local student graduates virtual school. Cherokee County resident Casey Gentry graduated from South Carolina Connections Academy, a virtual public school. ———————————————————————. You must be an online …
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Surry County Schools adds virtual classes
Mount Airy News
School Board Assistant Chair Earlie Coe asked if it would be possible for a student to graduate through the virtual school, and White said that yes, it could happen in the future as more classes are added, but it is not an option at this moment …
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Recent grads took untraditional route
St. Augustine Record
That’s because this was the Class of 2013 St. Johns Virtual School graduation. They do their learning online in a program coordinated through the district. In all, 24 students graduated this year although only nine showed up to wear blue caps and gowns …
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Are online classes a viable option?
Post-Bulletin
Will she be able to get a good education at a virtual school? — Interested. Online learning has really grown in the past few years. Most of the students enrolled in online courses are at the high-school level, like your daughter. Most, however, are …
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Large urban school districts creating their own virtual schools
The Hechinger Report
The virtual school now accommodates about 400 students from the Denver district and other parts of the state, including those living out of the state or country temporarily. Pittsburgh Started in 2012-13. It began the year with 150 students, though …
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Colorado online school distances itself from K12, Inc.
The Progressive Pulse
The State Board of Education, which is tasked with approving charter schools in the state, didn’t take up the virtual school’s application and the matter has since been in the appeals courts. A legislative proposal that would have granted the K12, Inc …
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WIVA graduation ceremony tonight at high school
hngnews.com
WIVA enrollment has increased dramatically since the virtual school relocated to McFarland in 2009, more so in the last year after the state approved an extended open enrollment period. Last year 32 seniors graduated from the school. The guest speaker …
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Euharlee Teen a Finalist in National Video Contest
Patch.com
Matthew Pryor, 15, of Euharlee, a Georgia Virtual School student who will be entering the 10th grade, is a Top 10 Finalist in the 2013 winter/spring Samsung Superhero video competition. “Matthew has been a videographer since the the age of two and …
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• Mooresville Christian Academy, Ivy Tech pairing up for virtual school
Reporter-Times
Another option for high school learning is becoming available at Mooresville Christian Academy. With the help of Ivy Tech and Indiana Connections Academy, high school-age students at MCA can take online dual-credit college courses. MCA parents had an …
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Finally, the Google News alert for cyber school.
Cyber school: Change snowballing
Charleston Gazette
The computer revolution keeps transforming everyday life — and universities evidently will be next to undergo radical change. Online learning offers a way to slash the severe cost of higher education, and to reach millions more students. A new book …
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Pennsylvania Cyber School Facing Potential Funding Cut
WHAG
FRANKLIN COUNTY , PA- Legislators are calling it the double dip pension problem where, for years, cyber schools have been getting overpaid for their pension obligations. But the proposed bill could be doing more than just fixing the problem. “This bill …
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Morning talker: Are cyber schools real schools?
Penn Live
Earlier this week Suzanne D. Hair penned a piece on why she sends her son to Commonwealth Connections Academy and arguing that cyber schools are public schools and deserve equal funding. It was in response to another article from a parent insisting …
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PA Cyber Charter School to graduate 1500
Sacramento Bee
PITTSBURGH, June 5, 2013 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School will graduate 1,500 members of the Class of 2013, its 13th and largest graduating class ever, announced CEO Dr. Michael J. Conti. Western …
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Fleck Bill to Place Moratorium on New Cyber Charter Schools Advances
News Talk 1240 WRTA
Legislation authored by state Rep. Mike Fleck (R-Huntingdon/Blair/Mifflin) that would maintain the current number of cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania until funding issues are addressed, was approved Monday by the House Education Committee. House …
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New Hope-Solebury to add cybercharter school
phillyBurbs.com
New Hope superintendent Raymond Boccuti said the agreement will first allow the district to offer Bridges’ cyber program to the districts’ 11 students who are enrolled in other cyber charters when the new school year begins in September. In the 2014 …
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Cyber school: Change snowballing
Charleston Gazette
The Christian Science Monitor reports: “Some people, like Harvard business school professor Clayton Christensen, predict that in as little as 15 years, …
Cyber school is only option for summer school in Dallas
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
DALLAS TWP. — Cyber school will now be the only option for summer school in the Dallas School District. High school teacher Jennifer Lamoreaux and Vice …
Beginning with the fact that there were no items from the ProQuest Alert for virtual school.
Moving on to the EBSCO alert for virtual school – where there were no items.
E-Learning for Little Ones Raises Developmental Questions
Ed Tech @ Work
