Sentences with phrase «virtual charter school pilot»

A provision slipped into the General Assembly's budget this past summer directed the State Board of Education to open two virtual charter school pilot programs and at present there are only two applicants.

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During the 2014 session, lawmakers enacted a pilot program that allows two companies to run virtual charter schools in North Carolina.

Meanwhile, since officials approved two virtual charter pilots in 2015, state legislators have allocated roughly $ 80 million to the two schools, in addition to handing down relaxed attendance - taking requirements that critics credit for the schools» plunging count of dropouts this academic year.

A provision snuck into the budget in the 2014 session ordered the State Board of Education to approve two virtual charter schools as pilot programs.

The head of a controversial virtual charter school wants North Carolina lawmakers to funnel more cash into the program and clear operations beyond the 2019 sunset of its four - year pilot program, despite lagging test scores and a host of concerns about similar programs nationwide.

But other members stressed Republican lawmakers hadn't envisioned those types of restrictions when they created a four - year pilot program for two virtual charter schools in last year's budget bill.

But the board felt it had little choice but to approve the two virtual charter school applicants — the only applicants — because the law required the pilot to begin quickly, in fall 2015.

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Previously the online virtual charter schools, which are taking part in a pilot program authorized by the legislature last year and set to begin this fall, would have had to record daily student attendance using the state's online reporting software — like traditional brick and mortar public schools — to comply with compulsory attendance laws.

The change has resulted in confusion with regard to how the virtual charter schools will be held accountable for ensuring students are meeting statutory minimum requirements for learning — and that's a troubling prospect to virtual charter schools expert Gary Miron, a Western Michigan University professor who says a very similar pilot program took place in his home state.

N.C. Connections Academy and the N.C. Virtual Academy are both in the third year of a four - year pilot program testing the concept of online charter schools.