Virtual Schooling in the News

Beginning with one of our non-regular one, e-School News.

FLVS debuts forum for virtual teachers
Nov 29 FULL STORY

As virtual school enrollments continue to climb nationwide, school administrators are faced with an important question: How to prepare traditional teachers for success in an increasingly online world....

Moving on to the Yahoo! News Alert for virtual school.

Plans readied for new charter school in Appleton
Appleton Post-Crescent Mon, 27 Nov 2006 7:56 PM PST

APPLETON After months of planning, a group of Roosevelt Middle School staff, parents and Fox Cities Performing Arts Center representatives is preparing to debut Kaleidoscope Academy as Appletons next charter school.

UM Online High School Offers Innovative, Dual Diploma Program for Students in Russia
SYS-CON Media Tue, 28 Nov 2006 8:42 AM PST

Foreign exchange programs promise to expose students to another culture and put them on a fast-track to second- language fluency through the time-honored 'immersion' method. But for many exchange students, cultural and linguistic immersion is accompanied by severe culture shock, homesickness, and feelings of isolation - hardly a recipe for broadening one's horizons. Fortunately, immersion

UM Online High School Offers Innovative, Dual Diploma Program for Students in Russia
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Tue, 28 Nov 2006 4:50 AM PST

Foreign exchange programs promise to expose students to another culture and put them on a fast-track to second- language fluency through the time-honored "immersion" method.

District ponders part in virtual school
Aberdeen American News Thu, 30 Nov 2006 1:09 AM PST

The Aberdeen school district is exploring what, if anything, it would like to do to be part of the newly created South Dakota Virtual High School.

Next the Yahoo! News Alert for cyber school.

Boards to meet over tuition rift
The Beaver County Times Wed, 29 Nov 2006 0:02 AM PST

MIDLAND - Western Beaver and Midland school board members and administrators plan to meet in the next week to try to resolve a legal dispute that has put more than 30 students' academic futures up in the air.

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