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At issue is whether students just need to be "offered" education online or whether the school has to show that they did classwork. ECOT has maintained that a 2003 agreement with the...
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The school’s monthly payments on the $2.8 million the state said it owed for not properly tracking its enrollment created a negative financial outlook through the next school year, said the school’s executive director, Linda Daugherty. Akron Digital Academy’s closure comes as the Ohio Department of Education makes new efforts to hold e-schools accountable follo ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio had authority to calculate a giant online charter school’s funding using student participation data rather than only enrollment, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in the latest blow to the now-dismantled e-school. The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, which had been among the nation’s largest virtual schools, closed to its roughly 12,000 students in January but remains of interest to prosecutors reviewing audit findings and politicians raising accountabilit...
This article appears in the · December 5, 2011 issue. Lamenting this series of defeats, Patricia Levesque, a top adviser to former Governor Jeb Bush, spoke to fellow reformers at a retreat in October 2010. Levesque noted that reform efforts had failed because the opposition had time to organize. Next year, Levesque advised, reformers should “spread” the unions thin “by playing offense” with decoy legislation. Levesque said she planned to sponsor a series of statewide reforms, like allo...
Do students earn full credit for successfully completing online courses? What state or school district policies are needed to implement online learning? While the level of interest is high...
School performance measures for both virtual and blended... School districts i The authors wish to thank Mr. Christopher... state-specific school performance ratings. Current Scope and...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As U.S. children flock to virtual charter schools, states are struggling to catch up and develop rules to make sure the students get a real education and schools get the right funding. The future of virtual schools is part of the larger school-choice debate seeing renewed attention since the installation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, an online charter investor and advocate who sees them as a valuable option for students. While some perform well, the sector has been ...
Online schools like Ohio Virtual Academy, ECOT and OHDELA with poor state report card grades won't be counted in this year's reviews of charter school...