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Virtual high school Blue Sky makes case for online accountability

July 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This week was to have been a pivotal one for Minnesota’s first wholly virtual high school, Blue Sky Online Charter. After two years of back and forth, the state Department of Education’s claim that Blue Sky has engaged in persistent, repeated violations of state law, school administrators and officials were to have their day in court.

The state charges that the school has a pattern of graduating students who have not completed required coursework. The school counters that each time it attempts to comply with the DOE’s requests, it faces new complaints.

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Logging into high school

June 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

East Ridge High School junior Lauren Yonkoski listens attentively to her French 3 teacher, however Lauren isn’t sitting in a classroom. She’s sitting at the computer listening to her teacher online.

Yonkoski is currently enrolled in French at Insight School of Minnesota, a virtual high school.

Yonkoski said Insight has given her the flexibility to fit French into her schedule when it wasn’t feasible at East Ridge.

“It was either online or nothing,” she said.

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InnerPass Enables Students, Teacher at Leading Virtual High School

August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

InnerPass provides easy-to-use tools, including screen-sharing and “persistent” meeting rooms, which reduce the cost of online instruction, expand access to education and training opportunities, and bring client organizations to the leading edge of educational and training technology.

“The Minnesota Virtual High School is a great partnership for us, because it helped us further integrate with our Distance Learning clients,” says Steve Parsloe, CEO and President of InnerPass, “Especially in the case of the MVHS, we were able to pass along the benefits of collaborative technology to both students and teachers, creating both increased efficiency and cost savings.”

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