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The number of students enrolling in online education at Ohio’s virtual schools has exceeded 30,000. Currently, 12 times as many pupils choose to do their lessons by computer – often at home – as they did when the first school was launched in 2001, submitting tests or assignments for teachers to review online. Around 90 per cent of Ohio pupils to have enrolled in the programmes attend one of the state’s seven online schools, which are independently operated by funded by the public. Gary Miron, co-author of national studies about online schools and their operators for the National Education Policy Centre, stated that Ohio may have more online schooling available in comparison with other states because of its more relaxed approach. He said that considerations such as financial reporting, student-to-teacher ratios and state tests do not feature quite so heavily in Ohio’s requirements for online educational institutions.
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