by Education News
Since the year 2000, when Ohio’s online school opened its virtual doors for the first time, the number of students who take classes entirely over the internet has grown twelve-fold. Today the state’s virtual academies and online charters play host to over 30,000 kids who have chosen to forgo the typical classroom environment in favor of setting their own schedule and learning from home. In the U.S. only Arizona boasts a higher number of students taking courses online full-time, according to a report by Evergreen Education Group. Last year the Cleveland Plain Dealer looked at the online school phenomenon in Ohio and discovered that every single one of the state’s 97 school districts had at least some students who chose an online approach. The enrollment numbers ranged from a “handful” in some districts to as many as 1,500 in Cleveland. About 90% of all Ohio online learners took classes from one of seven statewide online schools, while the remainder attended virtual academies with a narrower, more local focus — like the charter school operating in Akron that boasts a student body of 1,000 area students.
http://www.educationnews.org/online-schools/ohios-academic-future-is-online-npr-predicts/
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