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FOCUS POINT: NCLB Public School Choice Requirements

COMMENT: Making the NCLB/virtual school connection


Submitted by Mickey Revenaugh on 10/12/04 6:13 PM

I've been witnessing firsthand some of the tremendous potential of virtual public schools to provide a choice option for families seeking an alternative. Commonwealth Connections Academy is a K-8 virtual school in Pennsylvania -- the first approved under PA's stringent new cyber-charter law. Close to 45% of the students at CCA this year qualify for free or reduced lunch, and there's a healthy concentration of families in core-city Philadelphia. If Pennsylvania had not chosen, after all the controversy, to embrace virtual schooling while establishing tough quality guidelines, families who want a different kind of choice wouldn't have one. Now we want to put together a community-based virtual school in Philly for students who need a personalized learning approach but can"t do virtual school at home because all the adults in their lives are working...


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NCLB Public School Choice Requirements

Submitted by Todd Ziebarth on 10/12/04 05:37 AM



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