February 01, 2008 (vol. 118, iss. 88) • Page Image 3
… authorized to discuss the strike publicly. An estimated 12 people were killed in the strike late Monday or early Tuesday, including Arabs, Turkeman from central Asia and local Taliban members, according to an…
… middle and high school students. At the Florida Virtual School, the largest Internet public school in the country, more than 50,000 students are taking courses this year. School authorities in Traverse…
… City, Mich., hope to use online courses provided by the Michigan Virtual School next fall to educate several hun- dred students in their homes, alleviating a class- room shortage. The other model is a…
… prairie district running an online including Weldie. Her children, Isabel, Harry school had in recent years given 130 students, and Eleanor -- all in elementary school -- down- and with them $106,000 in per…
…-pupil payments, load assignments and communicate intermit- to neighboring districts that used the students' tently with their certified teachers over the names to pad enrollment counts. The auditor Internet, but…
… are considered public tricts for not opening their own online schools. school students, not home-schoolers, because In Colorado, school districts have lost thou- their online schools are taxpayer…
…-financed and sands of students to virtual schools, and, in 2006, subject to federal testing requirements. a state audit found that one school, run by a rural Despite enthusiastic support from parents, district…
…, was using four licensed teachers to teach the schools have met with opposition from some 1,500 students across the state. The legislature educators, who say elementary students may be responded last…
… online schools. they divert state payments from the online stu- The Wiscosin Virtual Academy has 20 certi- dent's home district. fied, unionized teachers, and 800 students who Other opposition has arisen…
… district receives annual state payments take account of slower students. Isabel Weldie, of $6,050 for each of its 800 students, which it 5, is in kindergarten, "But in math I'm in first uses to pay teachers…
