Elk Grove Unified School District has opened enrollment for its first-ever virtual school. Students attending the school will have all the supplies needed to finish a school year delivered to their doorsteps. They will learn most of their lessons at home, but will visit a campus for tests and to meet occasionally with a...
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This August a few hundred students in the Elk Grove Unified School District will have their school year delivered to their doorstep in a giant UPS box. The K-12 students will be part of the district’s first-ever virtual school. The box will contain grade-specific supplies – books, globes, maps – that students will need to...
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It’s hard to believe the school year is halfway finished. My fifth-grade daughter has accomplished so much already and looks forward to what lies ahead. I take great pride in being involved in my child’s education. I proofread my daughter’s book reports, help her study for tests and read aloud with her from books....
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The State Committee for Diaspora Affairs of Azerbaijan is preparing to present a new project on distance education of Azerbaijani children abroad. According to the Committee, work on virtual Sunday school project is underway. “Thanks to this school Azerbaijani children and youth residing abroad will get an opportunity to get information on mother tongue,...
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Online schools are popping up all over the state and Kelso School District wants a piece of the action. The district plans to open “Kelso Virtual Academy” in January, a move school officials hope will boost graduation rates by offering flexibility in completing course work and boost district enrollment by attracting students who otherwise...
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Budget cuts could force Missouri’s statewide virtual school to close midway through the academic year, leaving students with half-earned credits scrambling to complete their education. Some students, just a few credits shy of graduation, could wind up as high school dropouts. Others, struggling with cancer, could miss their only chance to earn a degree....
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At the computer lab at The Greens at Columbia apartment complex off Clark Lane, school is in session. Natalie Quade, a ninth-grader, converts cooking data into graphs using Microsoft Excel. Meanwhile, her brother, Ryan, a fifth-grader, silently jots down on a map the locations of landmarks such as the Taj Mahal and Mount Everest....
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Virtual school advocates are welcoming the President to Wisconsin, hoping for education reforms. While President Barack Obama stops by Wright Middle School in Madison to talk about strengthening education, advocates of online public charter schools in Wisconsin hope his visit will highlight the restrictions on such schools, and encourage lawmakers to lift the enrollment...
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A program aimed at providing students who may miss classes for a deployed parent’s rest and recuperation visit or who live in remote locations takes learning to the Internet. “The virtual school, I think, is going to be fabulous,” Miles said. “The virtual school really is going to help our home-schooled students,...
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Jackson County School district officials are preparing for virtual school in the upcoming school year. The district already offers virtual classes within it’s own program. But it is now required by statute to contract with virtual school providers for students who choose to attend virtual school full time, instead of on a class-by-class basis....
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