Comments for Pennsylvania Online High Schools http://pennsylvaniaonlinehighschools.com Learn about online high schools in Pennsylvania, free online high schools, and earning a high school diploma online Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:23:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Going online to avoid violence by Jodecy http://pennsylvaniaonlinehighschools.com/going-online-to-avoid-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Jodecy Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:23:14 +0000 http://pennsylvaniaonlinehighschools.com/?p=340#comment-607 A few years ago I'd have to pay someone for this inomrfation. A few years ago I’d have to pay someone for this inomrfation.

]]> Comment on Cyber Charter Schools: The End of Public Education or a New Beginning? by Fred http://pennsylvaniaonlinehighschools.com/cyber-charter-schools-the-end-of-public-education-or-a-new-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Fred Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:10:57 +0000 http://pennsylvaniaonlinehighschools.com/?p=190#comment-390 "The End of Public Education" in the headline is a classic red herring. Nobody contemplates that K-12 public education will end. What is happening is change at an accelerating place. The existing industrial factory model of education, including the labor unions v. management conflict, is changing ever more rapidly because the product overall is substandard. Charter schools and cyber education offer alternative models which are non-union, more flexible and innovative, less expensive and offer more curriculum choices. In Pennsylvania, about 70,000 students are enrolled in charter schools, which represents 3.5% of the 2 million school age population. Of the 70,000, about 25,000 are in cyber charter schools, a little over 1% of the school age population. Quite a lot of hullabaloo over 1%, don't you think, to prompt a headline such as "The end of public education?" When students depart for a charter or cyber charter school, 75% of their tax dollars follow them. Competition from cyber schools has forced public school districts to do things like launch their own online curriculum programs, improving education for the 96.5% of students still in traditional classroom schools. “The End of Public Education” in the headline is a classic red herring. Nobody contemplates that K-12 public education will end. What is happening is change at an accelerating place.

The existing industrial factory model of education, including the labor unions v. management conflict, is changing ever more rapidly because the product overall is substandard. Charter schools and cyber education offer alternative models which are non-union, more flexible and innovative, less expensive and offer more curriculum choices. In Pennsylvania, about 70,000 students are enrolled in charter schools, which represents 3.5% of the 2 million school age population. Of the 70,000, about 25,000 are in cyber charter schools, a little over 1% of the school age population. Quite a lot of hullabaloo over 1%, don’t you think, to prompt a headline such as “The end of public education?”

When students depart for a charter or cyber charter school, 75% of their tax dollars follow them. Competition from cyber schools has forced public school districts to do things like launch their own online curriculum programs, improving education for the 96.5% of students still in traditional classroom schools.

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