Sentences with phrase «backed virtual charter»

Last year, Tennessee shut down their K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school for extremely low academic performance.

in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.

Former Office of Charter Schools director Joel Medley, who recently announced his departure in order to go head up the state's controversial new K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school NC Virtual Academy, gave a report to the State Board last month about concerns over a number of other recommended charter applications.

The Tennessee education commissioner recently called for their K12, Inc. - backed virtual charter school to be shut down for extremely low academic performance.

A publicly traded company whose CEO earned $ 4 million in total compensation for 2014, K12, Inc., backs virtual charter schools across the country, including California - based CAVA (California Virtual Academy).

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Animus toward government was what bound leftist and conservative Christian home schoolers together in the 1970s and 1980s, and it is what has brought them back together to oppose virtual charters.

The school, called «N.C. Virtual Academy,» will be one of two virtual charters (the other backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers lasVirtual Academy,» will be one of two virtual charters (the other backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers lasvirtual charters (the other backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers last year.

[2] rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com../Desktop/Public%20School%20Options.pdf

North Carolina public education backers are fired up this week over a new round of advocacy at the N.C. General Assembly that seems geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.

The effort, according to education reporter Billy Ball, is «geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.»

Some of the new slots will likely be filled by schools affiliated with philanthropist - backed groups like Bryan's Team CFA (the charter school arm of the Challenge Foundation), for - profit companies like the National Heritage Academies (which already manage five charters in the state) and «virtual charters» similar to K12, Inc., a publicly - traded Virginia company paying a lobbyist this year to go to the N.C. General Assembly on its behalf.

Former executive director Joel Medley recently left his position to run one of the state's two new virtual charter schools — the K12, Inc. - backed N.C. Virtual Avirtual charter schools — the K12, Inc. - backed N.C. Virtual AVirtual Academy.

North Carolina's warming to virtual schools will be welcome news to investors, who have seen online charter schools in other states scale back their involvement with K12, Inc. as school leaders take over the management functions from the company.

Lawyers for the N.C. Justice Center, a statewide anti-poverty advocacy group that the N.C. Policy Watch is a project under, filed an amicus brief to encourage the judge to send the virtual charter school's application back to the state board.

That change came at the behest of officials with the North Carolina Virtual Academy, the school backed by controversial for - profit online school operator K12, Inc., who complained to state officials that recording and reporting daily student attendance through the online reporting software that traditional schools use didn't work for them, according to DPI's interim director of the state's charter school office Adam Levinson.

The online school, called «N.C. Virtual Academy,» is one of two virtual charters (the other, N.C. Connections Academy, is backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers lasVirtual Academy,» is one of two virtual charters (the other, N.C. Connections Academy, is backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers lasvirtual charters (the other, N.C. Connections Academy, is backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers last year.