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TEMECULA —- Informational meetings regarding the new Temecula Advantage Virtual School will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday and March 19.
Temecula Advantage Virtual School will open at the beginning of the 2012-13 school year and be operated by the Temecula Valley Unified School District. Students at the school will study online and in classrooms.
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The corporate predators also target struggling learners, kids with learning disabilities or emotional problems; in other words, the very kids who need human engagement and interaction the most. And make no mistake: all kids need it! One shudders to imagine children as young as 5 attending a virtual school. It’s a ‘brave new world.’
How can we allow Michael Milken, a man who wouldn’t be allowed inside of a real classroom because of his felony conviction, to make a profit marketing his online curriculum to kindergartners?
Letting the business world gain control of our public schools has many sad consequences, but there is no question that it is making a few people very rich. Rupert Murdoch referred to the for-profit K-12 education industry as “a $500 billion sector in the U.S. alone that is waiting desperately to be transformed.” We must keep Rupert Murdoch waiting desperately until the end of time.
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EL DORADO COUNTY (CBS13) – Imagine getting your high school education without stepping inside a traditional classroom every day. Instead, you just wake up and log on.
El Dorado Union High School District is now accepting applications for its Virtual Academy at Shenandoah High School.
It offers online courses and contact with teachers through Skype and e-mail in what is described as a “comprehensive, individualized, and rigorous” high school education.
While much of the instruction is online, students do interact in person. Tests, labs and small group sessions are done face-to-face.
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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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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.
For the rest of the article, go to Laid-off Woodland school district teacher finds work teaching online – and as a ‘Macaroni Mom’
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.
For the rest of the article, go to Virtual Education Offers Global Opportunities for Students and Teachers
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.
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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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.
For the rest of the article, go to Stanford Online High School grants diplomas to academically advanced students
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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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.
For the rest of the article, go to Pearson’s U.S. Online Public Schools Fall to Bottom of Class
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