By WENDY PARCEL, San Diego Union-Tribune
Online learning is the driving force in revolutionizing education. It can overcome demographic and geographic barriers that limit our student learning, as well as improve the quality of instruction while decreasing the cost to provide that instruction. As with most public schools, running a class for a small number of students hurts a school financially. At Julian Charter, sponsored by Julian Union School District, we take students from multiple locations and have them all in one class online with an instructor. This allows us to place the best instructor possible in the teaching position and allows our students access to a class they might otherwise find unavailable. Many of our students live in rural areas where access to a variety of classroom settings is not possible. In addition, we have been able to partner with the Orange County Department of Education to offer career technical education classes that we could not offer alone.
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