Sentences with phrase «virtual public schools»

Lawmakers there are debating legislation of whether to put a moratorium on virtual public schools, just two years after the legislature gave the schools a green light to enter the state.

Instead, Governor McCrory should focus on expanding the publicly - run North Carolina Virtual Public School by promoting a blended model that combines online learning with in - person instruction.

In Tennessee, Republican State Representative Harry Brooks didn't even bother changing the name of ALEC's Virtual Public Schools Act before introducing it as his own legislation.

«Partly why we're all still here is that we didn't start out in the beginning and say we're going to be here for 10 years,» says Dreyer, who came aboard in 2001, a year before Connections opened its first pair of virtual public schools in Colorado and Wisconsin.

Virtual School: The Mississippi Virtual Public School offers a rigorous online curriculum to students in 6 - 12.

Hi, I am Dave Edwards, the Chief Communications and Professional Learning Officer for NC Virtual Public School.

But K12's core business — and the one proving most controversial — is full - time virtual public schools.

«Kindergarten kids learning in front of a monitor — that's just wrong,» said Maryelen Calderwood, an elected school committee member in Greenfield, Mass., who unsuccessfully tried to stop K12 from contracting with her community to create New England's first virtual public school last year.

Insight School of Michigan is a full - time only free virtual public school authorized by Central Michigan University.

Back in 2006, I was staffing an information table about a new virtual public school opening up in California's Central Valley to meet the needs of young iconoclasts who wanted something different.

A state audit released this week found that the North Carolina Virtual Public School misreported student enrollment and poorly documented teacher evaluations.

The Colorado Virtual Academy (COVA) recently broke off its future school management relationship with K12, Inc., a for - profit company that runs virtual public schools around the nation.

Connections supports 36 Connections Academy virtual public schools and Nexus Academy blended schools that operate in 26 states, and serve more than 60,000 students.

Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS)- New Hampshire's first statewide on - line virtual public school.

Since 2001, the company's Connections Academy has delivered individualized learning to students through virtual public schools...

ALEC's «Virtual Public Schools Act,» for example, even allows virtual schools to be paid the same amount per pupil as traditional public schools even though operations like K12 have no bricks and mortar school house or desks or air - conditioning or gyms, etc., to maintain.

We'll be back at 2 p.m. ET today with John Watson, the founder of Evergreen Education Group, and David Edwards, the chief communications and professional learning officer of the North Carolina Virtual Public School.

She was involved with overseeing curriculum development and coordinating various efforts in the areas of reading / language arts, early childhood, mathematics, science, social studies, gifted, advanced placement, foreign language, visual and performing arts, library media, textbooks, the Mississippi Virtual Public School, and Response to Interventions (RtI).

«A lot of it has to do with tone — how you ask for things,» says Shawn Morris, administrative coordinator of Wichita eSchool, a virtual public school in Wichita, Kansas, that reviews netiquette dos and don'ts with students.

Programs range from Stanford Online High School to specialized dropout prevention high schools run in partnership with community - based nonprofits toRocketship, which plows savings from technology into extended learning opportunities and higher teacher salaries, to the North Carolina Virtual Public School, a signature program of Democratic Governor Bev Purdue (launched when she was the state's Lt. Governor).

Since 2005, ALEC has offered a template law called «The Virtual Public Schools Act» to introduce online education.

Educational accreditation, school improvement, and professional development company AdvancED certified Connections in the spring of 2005, just a year after the company topped 1,000 students in what were then six virtual public schools.

Joanna currently collaborates with special education teachers across the state to teach Biology through the Occupational Course of Study (OCS) Program at the North Carolina Virtual Public School.

What's the difference between home - schooling and virtual public schools?

eAchieve Academy is a virtual public school with a charter in the Waukesha School District.

North Carolina, unlike many states, doesn't have any full - time virtual charter schools but the state does run the North Carolina Virtual Public School, which offers individual classes to schoolchildren around the state.

The subcommittee recommended six bills for adoption, including the «Virtual Public Schools Act.»

(Reuters)- Virtual public schools, which allow students to take all their classes online, have exploded in popularity across the United States, offering what supporters view as innovative and affordable alternatives to the conventional classroom.

Some of the groups and agencies include LEARN NC, the North Carolina Virtual Public School, MCNC, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.Neill has been active in educational technology at the district, regional, state, and national levels, and currently serves on various state and agency leadership committees, including the Board of Directors of the State Education Technology Directors Association.

The state does run the North Carolina Virtual Public School, which offers individual classes to schoolchildren around the state.

The state does run the North Carolina Virtual Public School, which offers individual online classes to school districts.