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April 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Students registering for next fall’s classes at Kenyon-Wanamingo High School won’t just have to choose between political science and economics or between art and accounting. Now, some of them will be deciding between classroom or living room.

Next fall, Kenyon Wanamingo will launch a pilot program for online learning that will allow students to take up to three courses over the Internet.

“We feel the trend will keep pushing in that (online) direction,” Kenyon Wanamingo High School Principal Patrick Walsh said. “We need to be ahead of it.”

The courses will be offered through Southeast Minnesota Virtual Academy, a coalition of six school districts in the Hiawatha Valley League of schools – Hayfield, Kasson-Mantorville, Kenyon-Wanamingo, La Crescent-Hokah, Stewartville and Triton.

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Online commentary: Virtual learning works for many students

April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In addition, there’s research that shows that virtual learning costs less on average than conventional schools. Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania all spend less on virtual schools than they do on brick-and-mortar ones. And in Michigan, students can complete nearly all the required courses for a high school diploma from Michigan Virtual School at an annual cost of less than $5,000 per full-time pupil. GenNET is even less expensive.

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Districts work together to start online school

March 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Six regional southeastern Minnesota school districts are teaming up to create the Southeast Minnesota Virtual Academy, which will offer online courses to students as early as this spring or summer.

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Online School Still in Trouble

March 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

GLENVILLE, MN–The State of Minnesota is cracking down on an online charter school for violating state laws.

As we reported last month in a KIMT Special Report, the Minnesota Department of Education says BlueSky Online is graduating students who haven’t met minimum state curriculum guidelines.

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BlueSky Online School, in hot water because of alleged violation of graduation standards, says it will fight to remain open.

March 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A charter school where the Minnesota Department of Education says students have graduated without meeting state requirements must be shut down by the organization that oversees it, or state officials say they’ll step in themselves.

BlueSky Online School is still violating the law two years after the state began investigating problems at the public school, officials at the education department said Monday. State officials have asked the school’s authorizer, Novation Education Opportunities, to either terminate or not renew its contract with BlueSky, effectively shutting down the school by this summer.

BlueSky’s interim director, Don Hainlen, blasted the department’s move as a decision reached by “bricks-and-mortar people who don’t know anything about online schools.”

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10 Websites That Make Homeschooling Easy

February 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Connections Academy – Offers a solid free online home school program. Connections Academy provides a new form of free public school that students can attend from home. The program combines parental involvement, expertise and accountability, and flexibility of classes.

eHarvey – An online school combining three different complementary technologies to provide a robust, flexible and supportive online learning experience.

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Petition forces audit of Houston Virtual Academy payments

February 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

School board members declined to comment on the allegations after the meeting Tuesday night.

More than $88,000 in monthly stipends to former superintendent Kim Ross and others – taken from an account linked to the district’s online class system – were never authorized by the school board, claims Kevin Kelleher, former director of Houston School District’s Minnesota Virtual Academy.

“With my knowledge of the virtual academy, I know who did the work,” said Kelleher. “It wasn’t these guys.”

The board kept mostly quiet during the public comment portion of the meeting, as Kelleher and other residents read the petition in two-minute segments.

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Reader’s view: Duluth school district mute about new ideas

February 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Years ago, when online schools were becoming popular, I approached the Duluth schools and suggested they look into the possibility of establishing such a school in order to keep money within the district. We had been home-schooling our own brood since 1990, and as a former paid educator with eight teaching credentials in three states, I offered assistance. My father had been the director of instructional resources in a major school district in California, so I did have a clue about the

logistics of “distance” learning, as it was called back then, even if the distance was marginal.

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Education Without the Classroom

February 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

AUSTIN, MN–Hate going to school at 7 am? Would you rather just go in your pajamas and never have to leave home?

That’s a very real statement for hundreds of Minnesota high schoolers who are getting their diplomas online. That’s not a quite a reality in Iowa yet, But as KIMT News 3′s Gwen Siewert is finding out there’s a lot that goes into the equation of finding out if online school is right for you.

There are 24 online schools in the gopher state. Most are regulated by the department of education and get state funding. So why isn’t Iowa getting in on online education? If your student can succeed without bells telling them when to move classrooms, it may be something parents can soon explore.

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State education agency to review online schools that get aid

February 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Minnesota Department of Education will conduct a review of every online school that receives state aid, Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius said Friday.

Cassellius announced the internal review in a statement that also said the department had improperly released private data related to 20 students at BlueSky Online School.

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