Idaho: Virtual School Recruiting - Coming to a Church Near You
May 20th, 2008 by Annette
That’s right, we have telemarketers invading our homes and now virtual school recruiters are invading our churches on Sunday.
New online school targets Latinos
iSucceed Virtual High School also seeks to help at-risk kids get ahead
By Jessie Bonner
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 05/18/2008 12:37:43 AM MDT
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BOISE, Idaho - The state’s newest virtual charter school is expected to go online this fall, but only after a strategic campaign to recruit Hispanics and teenagers at risk of quitting or getting kicked out of public high schools.
The nonprofit online charter school is part of Insight Schools, a Portland-based company that operates one of the largest networks of virtual high schools in country. With schools in Oregon, California, Washington and Wisconsin, Insight plans to open more this fall in Idaho, Minnesota and Kansas.
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Green wants to maintain a Latino student population of at least 20 percent. As part of their recruiting strategy, administrators bought ads on Spanish radio stations, advertised classes with bilingual brochures and drafted Latino community leaders to serve on its board of directors.
When Green learned a large portion of the St. Mary’s Catholic Church congregation in downtown Boise was Latino, he wrangled an appointment to speak after Sunday services.
”If there was any way to get me to go to mass,” said Green, who is not Catholic, ”this would be it.” (end of snips, see link above)
