Online Learning Update

March 6, 2012

Bill would require Georgia students take at least 1 online learning class to graduate

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

By Savannah King, Gainesville Times

Most colleges offer classes on the Web, but Georgia’s high school students could be required to take online courses. Georgia lawmakers recently voted 36-15 along largely partisan lines in favor of a bill that would require all high school students to take at least one online course before they graduate. Only three other states, Alabama, Florida and Michigan, require students in kindergarten through 12th grade to take an online courses. “We have a unique opportunity to open an entire new world of learning for Georgia students,” Sen. Chip Rogers, who authored the bill, said in an email.

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/63838/

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