When discussions about homeschooling and public school-at-home programs arise, it often becomes focused on defining homeschooling. From a philosophical standpoint, this can be positive or very negative. However, it does not change the fact that public schooling has its own definition already. Public school-at-home programs fall under a public schooling definition. Here is an example of a public school definition for one state. And […]
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Group: Ruling could shut down virtual schools across Wis.
BY RYAN J. FOLEY
Dec 5, 2007 4:42 PM
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MADISON, Wis. (Map, News) - Virtual schools that enroll thousands of Wisconsin students could be shut down after a court ordered the state to stop funding its largest one, an advocacy group warned Wednesday.
The ruling could result […]
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The state’s teachers union is suing the Northern Ozaukee School District and its Wisconsin Virtual Academy.
High court might take case
State Supreme Court is asked to review virtual-school challenge
By AMY HETZNER
Posted: July 4, 2007
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The council has challenged Northern Ozaukee’s school on three grounds: that it violates charter school law requiring such schools to be located within […]
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New voucher requirements change private school landscape
Need for accreditation causes some institutions to close, keeps others on drawing board
By ALAN J. BORSUK
Posted: Sept. 19, 2006
snip:: The decisions by two longtime private-school operators not to open this fall in Milwaukee underscore how the precedent-setting private school voucher program is being reshaped. […]
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Virtual schools
By Christina Beam
Tuesday September 19, 2006
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Paige, whose mom describes her as a “visual learner,” had difficulty adjusting to the traditional school setting. Now she’s also a virtual learner — this fall she enrolled in an online school out of the Appleton Area School District instead of Baraboo’s Jack Young Middle School — and […]
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Home-school enrollment falters –20 years of growth halts; impact of virtual schools felt
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After an enrollment boom of nearly two decades, the number of Wisconsin students in home-based education declined the past two school years.
At 20,741, the total number of home schoolers in 2004-’05 still was far greater than the 966 home-schooled […]
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