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Linik earns teaching award
January 18, 2012 By webearner Leave a Comment
COLUMBUS – Virtual Community School of Ohio (VCS Ohio) teacher Gabriela Linik of Orient received the “Teacher of the Quarter” award at a recent professional development event.
Linik was chosen by the management team for her persistence in promoting and exposing students to foreign language. She is highly involved with the Ohio Foreign Language Association. She also hosted the first-ever VCS student teacher.
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Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?
January 9, 2012 By webearner Leave a Comment
Virtual charter schools, which offer classes online instead of in a classroom, have become the fastest-growing segment of the charter school industry. And while data on their effectiveness is scarce, state legislators across the country are passing laws to expand cyber schools at the behest of privatization advocates and online education companies at an alarming rate, with little regulation.
The Associated Press reports that more than 200,000 kindergarten to 12th grade students are enrolled in full-time “virtual charter schools” in at least 40 states. That number soars to two million schoolchildren nationwide when one takes into account students who are enrolled in at least one course.
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Open enrollment hurts some schools in funding
January 7, 2012 By webearner Leave a Comment
The Barrington family lives on the outskirts of Millville, technically in the Talawanda City School District, but not far from the borders of Ross and Hamilton schools.
Although mom Rachel Barrington teaches English as a Second Language in Talawanda, she takes her daughter Grace to a Hamilton elementary every day, taking advantage of Ohio’s open enrollment.
“We’ve always just been more involved in the Hamilton community,” Barrington said. “So when Hamilton started offering open enrollment five years ago, we moved over.” The other Barrington daughter, Claire, went to Monroe Elementary prior to the opening of Ridgeway and stayed in Hamilton schools up through the seventh grade, but now a freshman, she does her school work through the on-line Ohio Virtual Academy.
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