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Press Release: Virtual High School Courses Receive California Approval

February 22, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Virtual High School Courses Receive California Approval

Students in California can now take Virtual High School’s high-quality Advanced Placement® (AP), language and social sciences courses online from their school or home.

February 15, 2012, Maynard, MA – Virtual High School Global Consortium (http://www.goVHS.org), the pioneer of K-12 online learning and course design for teachers, today announced that 16 of their award-winning online courses have been approved to meet requirements for admission to the University of California. High schools in California can now enroll their students in individual courses to expand their curriculum or easily overcome scheduling challenges.

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Laid-off Woodland school district teacher finds work teaching online – and as a ‘Macaroni Mom’

February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Though the Slussers both got canned, they were fortunate to find work before the next school year started.

So it turns out getting laid off wasn’t so bad after all.

Greg found a job at a middle school in Sacramento as a science teacher and Kali was hired by California Virtual Academies, a public K-12, tuition-free charter online school that is also known as CAVA.

Being hired for the online position meant Slusser no longer had to spend her days in a classroom: She now teaches from her home office.

“They know most of us have families,” Slusser said of the virtual school. “So we’re able to work at home with our families.

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TEMECULA: School district considers virtual school

February 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Students in Temecula could soon be taking classes from their home computers.

The Temecula Valley Unified School District is considering adding a virtual school program for students in grades 6-12. The school board will consider approval at a meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Temecula Advantage Virtual School would be ready to open for the 2012-13 school year, said Todd Reed, an administrator on special assignment, who presented the idea at a school board meeting earlier this month.

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Juan Bautista de Anza Online Charter School Opens Student Resource Center in Desert Shores

February 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Desert Shores Resource Center, located off Highway 86 between Coachella Valley and El Centro at 228 Desert Shores Rd. in Desert Shores, opened in January 2012. Students can complete coursework in the state-of-the-art computer lab or receive individualized tutoring at the center, which is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Now in its third year, Juan Bautista de Anza Online Charter School continues to aggressively expand its program offerings to serve area high school students looking for a high-quality virtual school,” said Dr. Sandra Thorpe, executive director. “The school’s new Desert Shores Resource Center will give students in the Coachella and Imperial Valleys a true blended-learning environment that combines rigorous online courses with in-person mentoring and tutoring opportunities.”

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County school choice options

February 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Attendance area: Attend the school based on the student’s true address. Families do not need to complete an application for their children to attend or remain at their attendance area school.

Magnet: Theme-based curriculum taught by specially-trained teachers. Schools include Tampa Bay Tech, Middleton, Blake, Jefferson.

Choice: Provides the opportunity to apply to a non-magnet school or career and technical education program outside the student’s attendance area school so long as the desired school is below its designated capacity.

Hardship: Allows students with a documented hardship the opportunity to submit a request for a school that is capped, outside their assigned area or not available for school choice. Applications are only reviewed for residents of Hillsborough County.

Out-of-county: Applications are available for students living in neighboring counties as a courtesy.

Other options: Include charter schools, home schools, Florida Virtual and Hillsborough Virtual (online) schools and options for military families and students with disabilities or special needs.

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Virtual Education Offers Global Opportunities for Students and Teachers

February 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Middle school students in California, for example, watched Chinese dancers perform during a recent virtual field trip. Some schools are even making virtual education with foreign educators a part of their curriculum.

In Michigan, educators have partnered with colleagues in China to offer virtual education exchange opportunities that allow students to communicate with each other, often through videos, online. During the next school year, students will have the chance to attend a real Chinese school, taking virtual classes according China’s time zone, at their own schools during the hours of 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.

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Online explosion takes hold in Ripon schools

February 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

California Connections Academy @ Ripon will open as a public charter school in the fall, becoming the latest in an exploding array of online options in the area.

It will join this year’s online startups — Turlock Unified’s eCademy Charter at Crane and Modesto City School’s Modesto Virtual Academy — as well as current district online programs and at least a dozen independent charters.

Online schools have, it appears, gone viral.

The Ripon charter was granted by Ripon Unified School District in January; the school will serve kindergartners through graduating seniors.

Though its home district is in San Joaquin County, it is eligible to sign up students from all adjacent counties as well: Alameda, Amador, Calaveras, Contra Costa, Sacramento, Santa Clara and Stanislaus.

Ripon Unified Superintendent Louise Johnson said the district did its homework before granting the charter and sees it as partnering with the online group. The district will provide some arm’s-length oversight, but the charter school will manage its own finances and answer to its own board of directors.

“We were very favorably impressed,” Johnson said. “The program is quite interesting because they have a mix,” she said, listing online webcasts, real-time classes in which students interact with the teacher and classmates, and traditional work.

The district’s enrollment is stable, Johnson said, and she sees the charter as attracting home-schoolers and students who were using other online options.

“I think the instructional program is solid and if I’m going to have students in a virtual school, I want the instruction to be that solid,” Johnson said.

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Stanford Online High School grants diplomas to academically advanced students

February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Powerhouse high schools hardly bring to mind virtual spaces, but an online high school operated by Stanford could alter that perception.

The Stanford Online High School (OHS), previously called the Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), was established in 2006 and currently serves more than 400 students, including both full- and part-time students.

EPGY was founded to provide classes that academically talented students could use to supplement their regular high school curriculum.

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Another View: Data can bedevilcharter schools

January 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Kathleen Gibbons, a Rocklin parent whose child attends a public virtual school, is a board member of California Parents for Public Virtual Education. She is responding to the Jan. 2 editorial “Charter schools should embrace accountability,” which stated: “The California Charter Schools Association, in setting its own higher standard for measuring charter schools, has started a lively dialogue centered on the right thing – student performance and how to measure it.”

Last month, the California Charter Schools Association announced an initiative that would have tragic ramifications for some public charter schools. Under this proposal, any charter school failing to meet the association’s arbitrary standards would not be permitted to renew its charter. After close examination, though, the educational community may want to rethink CCSA’s assessment and its effort to limit parental choice under the guise of accountability.

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Pearson’s U.S. Online Public Schools Fall to Bottom of Class

January 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Online public schools, where students as young as kindergarteners log on from home to take classes, don’t make the grade, according to a study released today.

Less than a third of the “virtual” schools managed by for- profit companies made adequate progress toward meeting state standards last year, compared with about half of all public schools, according to the report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The findings demonstrate that online public schools, which educate more than 200,000 students nationwide, don’t have the results to justify their growth, said Gary Miron, lead author of the study and a professor at Western Michigan University.

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