Together with a private company, Tracy Unified School District launched an online public charter school last week that could bring in more money for the financially strapped district.
Kaplan Virtual Education and the nonprofit California Virtual Education Partners teamed up with the local school district to start a sixth-through-12th-grade virtual charter academy in time for the new school year.
Any one of 700,000 middle-through-high school-age kids in San Joaquin County, and all contiguous counties, are eligible to enroll in what’s called the Kaplan Academy of California, according to Matt Given, Kaplan’s vice president for public school development.
For each student who enrolls, Tracy Unified could get about 5 percent of the per-pupil funding. For every student, the state gives a little less than $5,000 to the school they attend, according to the district.
A virtual school gives the Tracy district a chance to collect students from surrounding districts, which means more money for the local operating budget, said Sheila Harrison, Tracy Unified’s assistant superintendent of educational services.
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Tracy Unified to offer online charter school by Jennifer Wadsworth
From TracyPress.com
