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Wednesday, January 15, 2003
Cyber Learning Complicates Charter Funding - Caroline Hendrie, Education Week
In the decade after Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law in 1991, states typically made no distinction for funding purposes between students taught in classrooms and those who learn mainly at home. So policymakers were often caught off guard when schools catering to home- based learners came forward to claim a share of the public education pie. But with distance learning increasingly going digital, funding for charter schools without walls is becoming an issue that is hard to ignore.
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