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Bill would allow online driver’s ed for home-schoolers

April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Nestled in the fine print of the omnibus transportation bill pending before the state Legislature is a provision allowing home-schoolers to sign their kids up for online driver’s education. And dozens of commercial digital driver-training programs already operating in other states are poised to start schooling Minnesota teens in cyberspace.

As far as political alliances go, the love affair between home-schoolers and for-profit online education companies would seem about as sweet as it gets.

Since the goal of home schooling often is keeping kids out of public schools, the advent of the virtual school is a major boon. Sweeter still: When the cyber-academy is a charter school, with taxpayers picking up the tab for everything from hardware to curriculum.

Indeed, presidential also-ran Rick Santorum got into trouble several years ago when it was revealed that he had moved out of the state where a public school district paid a cyber charter $100,000 to home-school several of his children.

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100 years of Cotter

September 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Still, innovation continued. In the summer of 1995, at a time when most people were only vaguely aware of the existence of the Internet, Cotter administrators announced the creation of the Virtual School of Winona. Backed by the Fastenal founder’s foundation, the goal of the Virtual School was to put a networked computer in the home of every Cotter student, digitally linking them with each other, their school and the world.

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Online school offers an alternative to traditional classroom

August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

School bells are soon to ring and students will head back into the classroom, teachers greeting them face-to-face.

While computers have become integral components in the classroom, they have not served as a primary educational medium.

Until now.

BlueSky Online School is Minnesota’s first virtual school, the statewide public school serving approximately 700 students in grades 7-12. And that number is likely to swell to 900 as the year moves forward; enrollees are accepted throughout the year.

Like the conventional classroom, there are teachers at the helm, Menahga science instructor and Park Rapids resident David Bjorklund among them.

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