Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe said the company began in 1999 by providing online advanced placement programs, but in 2005 it started
providing online credit recovery programs, which have «really just taken off from there.»
Apex is one of two companies contracted by LA Unified to
provide online credit recovery courses.
They provide online credit recovery for students who have not earned enough credits.
Not exact matches
A six - year partnership starting with
credit recovery expanded to
provide a complete
online solution serving more student needs, contributing to the highest graduation rate in 10 years.
Even as
online credit recovery hits the mainstream, for the most part it has remained free of any scrutiny beyond what individual school leaders and the consumer marketplace
provide.
Last year, LA Unified's Chief Academic Officer Frances Gipson said that California's public universities had approved the
online credit recovery courses
provided by Edgenuity and others as acceptable for admission.
The intention was to use an
online platform we lovingly call E2020, which
provides content for core curriculum, elective, advanced placement, career and technical courses, and «
credit recovery».
The reporter also pointed to evidence of school districts using «
credit recovery programs» that shove potential high school dropouts into
online learning sweatshops that
provide a pathway to graduation that in no way resembles rigorous high school coursework.
Edgenuity
provides online courses to districts in all 50 states — and
credit recovery courses to eight of the 10 largest districts in the nation, including LA Unified, Chicago Public Schools and Miami - Dade County Public Schools.
This school year, as part of LA Unified's $ 15 million
credit recovery program, Edgenuity signed a $ 400,000 contract with the district to
provide online courses and training for teachers to administer them.
These
online courses are
provided by our partner, Connections Learning and feature original
credit,
credit recovery, and enrichment courses.
In a CBE system, students are
provided with personalized learning opportunities that can include
online and blended learning, dual enrollment and early college high schools, project - based and community - based learning, and
credit recovery.