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Bensalem could start cyber academy

June 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Currently, 63 high school-age Bensalem residents attend cyber charter schools, said assistant Superintendent David Baugh.

Under state law, Bensalem is obligated to pay $10,500 for each high school student from the district attending a cyber charter, Baugh said.

Bensalem could provide similar courses with a maximum tuition cost of about $4,200 per year, and potentially save the district about $6,300 per student, Baugh added. First, the district will need to lure those students back to Bensalem.

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Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School Students Continue to Excel, Achieve in the Virtual Classroom

June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

MIDLAND, Pa., June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Since charter and cyber charter schools first appeared on the educational grid in Pennsylvania nearly 11 years ago, misconceptions of student success and achievement have been concerns of both supporters and opponents.

Today, the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, the largest and most successful cyber charter school in the state, is proud to announce that its students continue to excel in their virtual education and, in many instances, outperform their traditional-school counterparts.

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Online commentary: Virtual learning works for many students

April 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In addition, there’s research that shows that virtual learning costs less on average than conventional schools. Florida, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania all spend less on virtual schools than they do on brick-and-mortar ones. And in Michigan, students can complete nearly all the required courses for a high school diploma from Michigan Virtual School at an annual cost of less than $5,000 per full-time pupil. GenNET is even less expensive.

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VLN Partners’ Virtual Learning Program Reduces Education Costs

March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

PITTSBURGH, March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — VLN Partners, LLC announced today the formation of their regional online education program called, “The Southwestern PA Virtual School Consortium,” that will help school districts establish their own district-level virtual academies.

As the leading provider of customized public school district virtual learning programs in Pennsylvania, VLN’s consortium model provides school districts with both financial and curriculum-based incentives if districts form collaborative groups to develop and implement their own virtual learning programs.

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Council adjusts Coatesville Community Center’s programs

March 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Smith-Williamson said the foundation wants to re-establish its camp program for younger children, create mentoring opportunities and build academic programs including a potential cyber school.

For adults, the foundation wants to have computer training, a leadership academy, training for new parents and a neighborhood college, she said.

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Westmoreland charter school opens 2nd location

February 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A former parish hall in the tiny borough of New Florence will soon be outfitted with computers and staffed with teachers as a rapidly expanding virtual charter school opens its second physical location in northeastern Westmoreland County.

Achievement House Cyber Charter School, which hashad its enrollment in the western half of the state more than triple this year, operates an education center in the nearby borough of Bolivar.

“We have seen not only increased enrollment in the New Florence area, but also in Indiana, Greensburg, even Pittsburgh,” said Achievement House Principal Sue Stiver. Stiver said the Chester County-based secondary school had as many as 200 students in Western Pennsylvania this year, compared with about 60 last year.

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Quakertown adds high school classes

February 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The district’s Blended Schools program of more than 30 courses will allow students to select a combination of in-class time and cyber learning when they plan their class schedules for 2011-12.

More than 135 students are enrolled either full or part time in Quakertown’s online Infinity Academy education options.

Metrick said cyber learning will more than round out the school day for students. “With all the options we have, including the Virtual High School program, their course choices are endless,” she said.

With all the course options, the district will end the optional first period, which allows students to start their day earlier.

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School opens floor for parents

February 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Nineteen district students attend school from home, over “The Gettysburg Academy” online learning network. The academy provides students who might work better at home with teachers and the same course material they would receive in the classroom. Students sign into their “homeroom” in the morning, attend classes during the day, and submit homework for grading.

The district receives daily reports on student progress to help identify problems before they become insurmountable. Because the material is virtually the same as taught in the district’s classrooms, students may decide part way through a course to return to the classroom; they would join the class in about the same place they left the virtual academy.

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IU 13 eyes cyber school program

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

As they struggle to meet students’ needs, cash-strapped school districts find themselves in a Catch-22 situation.

On the one hand, they want to offer more courses and programs to better compete with increasingly popular cybercharter schools, which are costing them millions of dollars in tuition each year.

On the other, the economic downturn is making it difficult to pay for new programs and personnel.

Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 thinks it has a solution.

The IU is developing a virtual school consortium that would allow public school students to take online courses while remaining in their “home” school districts.

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Districts’ cyberbills growing

January 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Pennsylvania cyber- and charter schools, authorized by the state Legislature more than a decade ago, are booming. The schools are tuition-free; the money to operate the schools comes from each student’s “home” district, which is required by state law to remit its average annual cost per student. In Elanco, for example, it costs an estimated $9,311 to educate every nonspecial education student (and $15,356 per special education student). If 11 students leave, or never attend Elanco schools, the district has to shell out more than $100,000 to the cyber- or charter school of the student’s choice.

School districts are reimbursed some of this funding by the state, though that reimbursement rate has fallen. And as districts here and across the state face fiscal crises, there are growing concerns that the Legislature needs to do something to stem the districts’ rising cyber- and charter school costs.

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