Online Learning Update

November 21, 2010

3,500 students navigate virtual classrooms at 3 Texas public online learning schools

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:06 am

By JEFFREY WEISS, The Dallas Morning News

Riley Niksich starts his class like most third-graders in Texas: with a pledge to the American and state flags. But Riley’s patriotic flags are only digital, on the laptop computer resting on the dining room table in his Garland home. Denise McConnell helps her son Joseph, 8, with his schoolwork at their home in Grand Prairie. The McConnells enrolled their four school-age children in iQ Academy Texas, a public online school, after they spent a year in Arlington schools. Riley is one of about 3,500 Texas kids taking advantage of online public schools, a free alternative to brick-and-mortar education. These schools must meet the same state-mandated curriculum requirements and TAKS testing of students at any other public school in Texas.

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