National Charter School Watch Blog

Time to get back to work here this week.  It was a good time of refreshment and getting the kiddos focused on the new homeschool year.
Annette

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Carlotta points out there is a “big” distinction between elective home education and public virtual schooling.  In the US, I suppose some would consider her to be a “literalist”. This is a good thing, a component of healthy home education advocacy. I wonder if Carlotta has received negative feedback for noting the distinctions?

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I think in the US, we call these students “push-outs”.
Excluded pupils given ‘home’work
By Alex Ali
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EXCLUDED schoolchildren in Brent will be educated by a new virtual school.
The local authority has bought 25 seats from Accipio - a company that specialises in providing education for children with behavioural problems. And the new scheme means for two days […]

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Questions about government homeschool programs
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The danger comes when the government attempts to control all home educators - even the independent ones - once enough home educators participate in the government programs. That’s what happened in Alberta. One year the government said, “We want to help you.” The next year they said, […]

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Cyber High Schools Start Taking Off
Up To A Million Students Are Already Enrolled Online
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(CBS) The scene at Columbia High School in Lake City, Fla., is common across the country, with hallways bursting with students trying to get to their next class.
For honors student Ericka Novoa, it’s pre-calculus. After a full day […]

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Schools taking longer look at extended classroom time
BY LEDYARD KING | GANNETT NEWS SERVICE
**snip** WASHINGTON - Demands for more tests and more academic rigor are spurring schools to consider something that makes most students shudder: more time in class:
Massachusetts is paying for longer days at 10 schools this year.
Minnesota is considering whether […]

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For those homeschoolers who would want to redefine homeschooling to include public schooling-at-home, in this article link, this question is posed from the other side of the coin:
“If we redefine public education to include homeschooling, the next logical debate is, why not broaden it to include private schools […]

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I have a guest post at Spunky’s blog:
Homeschooling and Public School-At-Home Programs

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Valerie at Home Education Magazine “News & Commentary” has a great piece on public school-at-home programs. It offers an overview of this particular trend and homeschoolers’ concerns about public school-at-home programs. Cyber-charter growth and the development of virtual school programs continue
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A danger is if the very concept of homeschooling is replaced in the common consciousness […]

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I thought it would be good with the first post to share what it is that we do at the NCSW list.
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Description
Purpose: This list is created to be a means of informing, documenting and evaluating available information concerning the impact of virtual/charter schools on the homeschooling community. The information that is being documented and cataloged […]

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