Got this in my inbox last week. Not entirely related to K-12, but a topic that is of interest to many folks in the K-12 environment.
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Virtual Schooling In The News.
Beginning with the Yahoo! News Alert for virtual school.
Spring Virtual School opens its portals to students on-the-go
Spring ObserverSat, 22 Nov 2008 2:08 AM PST
Spring Independent School District believes that anytime a school system can give children flexibility and a choice in how they learn will only have positive results.
You know we are living in a virtual world
The Sauk Prairie EagleWed, 26 Nov 2008 7:36 AM PST
To get to his public high school, Prairie du Sac teen Shaun Carroll doesn’t have a long commute — just however long it takes him to walk from his bedroom to his living-room couch.”You get up in the morning, get on your laptop and start doing school,” Carroll said.Carroll, 15, is enrolled at Insight School of Wisconsin, a purely on-line accredited public high school open to any Wisconsin …
Next the Yahoo! News Alert for cyber school.
Cyber Teacher May Have Helped Save Student
KDKA PittsburghFri, 21 Nov 2008 9:25 PM PST
The actions of a local teacher may have helped save her student who was 250 miles away. Rae Balog, 28, teaches Spanish at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School in Frazer Township at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall.
Moving on to the Google News Alert for virtual school.
Plymouth schools may cut busing, drop extracurriculars
Sheboygan Press – Sheboygan,WI,USA
The board also is looking to increase district enrollment of slightly more than 2400 students through virtual-school participation and an appeal to …
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Some Collier students will watch their GPA slide through no fault …
Naples Daily News – Naples,FL,USA
Hayes said students could take an honors class at the Florida Virtual School to receive that 0.04 credit. Letters will go out to parents of effected …
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Judge lifts restraining order, allows LHS construction to go forward
Lawrence Journal World – Lawrence,KS,USA
… which also calls for adding baseball, softball and soccer fields at the high school, or the nearby Lawrence Virtual School site, 2145 La. …
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Virtual Schools The Right Answer For Many Students
Tampa Tribune – Tampa,FL,USA
Another 63000 plus take classes from Florida Virtual School. The numbers, though soaring, remain a small percentage of total student enrollment. …
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School enrollment steady in face of economic woes
TheNewsTribune.com – Tacoma,WA,USA
Of the 722 additional students, about 550 are enrolled in the Washington Virtual Academy, the district’s online program for kindergartners through …
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Virtual Schools; Real Benefits
Tampa Tribune – Tampa,FL,USA
Jasmine is in seventh grade at Hillsborough Virtual School. She constantly is in touch with dozens of classmates and her six teachers – zipping in and out …
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Finally, the Google News Alert for cyber school.
Cyber Teacher May Have Helped Save Student
KDKA – Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Rae Balog, 28, teaches Spanish at the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School in Frazer Township at the Pittsburgh Mills Mall. About 120 cyber school …
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Student Instant-Messages Teacher To Call 911 During Robbery
WPXI.com – Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Leadership Cyber School in Tarentum Wednesday morning when she received a panicked e-mail from one of her students. Ariel Rivera, 16, of Reading, Pa., …
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