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The board met on Tuesday in Blackford High School’s distance learning lab while Curriculum Director Linda Walker and Community Alliance to Promote Education (CAPE) Director Christy Meredith made their monthly presentations to the board from a similar setup at Wes-Del High School in Delaware County. Read the Full Story
The purchases were funded under the U.S. Department of Education’s, Title II-A and Title II-D programs under the No Child Left Behind Act. Read the Full Story
According to plans, Polk would have a virtual public high school — meaning students would take classes via the Internet. The district would franchise online courses from the state-run Florida Virtual School (FLVS) to be taught by local teachers. The new school, if approved by the Polk County School Board, could open this fall and […]
“Online learning is a fairly hot topic in public education these last several years,” said DHHS principal Jim Coyne before the Board of Education Feb. 24. “And it’s become of increasing interest to us as our level of technology has improved.” Read the Full Story
He said he agrees with NCLB, although he believes the law needs to be refined. Read the Full Story
The Rural School Project is a five-year, 10 billion RMB program established in 2003 to help fund the acquisition of education resources, personnel and technologies for K-12 schools in China’s rural areas. Read the Full Story
The school, University of Miami Online High School, offers an academic program for athletes who are too busy to attend bricks-and-mortar high schools. Read the Full Story
District officials are studying a plan to allow students to take classes via videoconferencing. Read the Full Story
central Alaska — roughly the size of the state of West Virginia. There are 214 students, all of whom live in rural areas with some accessible only by air. A staff of 30 serves students from preschool up to age 21. Between 1975 and 1994, one student from Chugach went on to college, and reading […]
The State Board of Education gave the district approval to move ahead with plans for the first online charter high school in the state. Read the Full Story
