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Online Schooling Seeing Explosive Growth in Oklahoma

admin — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:12:14 +0000

From promotional radio and TV commercials and direct mailings aimed at parents to newspaper headlines and explosive enrollment growth, “virtual schools” and “virtual students” are this school year’s buzzwords in Oklahoma.

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TPS virtual program seeing record enrollment

admin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:09:48 +0000

School starts August 22nd in Tulsa and a record number of public school students won’t have to worry about catching the bus or even having to wear the district’s new mandatory school uniforms.
TPS parents at virtual school orientation Thursday say with the on-line education is one way to not have to worry about class size, because their students won’t even sit in a classroom.

Right now the virtual school, which is has a “classroom” inside Promenade Mall, has about 150 students from Tulsa. Enrollment just got underway and officials expect to see around 300 to 350 students on-line by the end of the semester.

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Coming Monday: Virtual schools gaining popularity in Oklahoma

admin — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:41:11 +0000

From promotional radio and TV commercials and direct mailings aimed at parents to newspaper headline-making controversy and explosive enrollment growth, “virtual schools” and “virtual students” are this back-to-school season’s buzz words.

A Tulsa World analysis of state records shows that the number of Oklahoma public school students doing schoolwork through computer-based programs has increased nearly 400 percent over the last three years.

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Online learning an effective option for students

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:54:45 +0000

Dan Lips (Point of View, Feb. 5) calls on legislators to give parents more freedom to choose the best learning environment for their children. He also praises online learning as an innovative educational choice that lets students receive individualized instruction. As the head of an Oklahoma City-based online learning provider that partners with schools and districts statewide to offer Oklahoma Virtual High School, I’ve seen firsthand how online education has helped state students graduate and succeed.

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Education choice for Oklahoma’s future

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 05:14:17 +0000

Debates about school choice have focused on the critical challenge of helping kids trapped in bad schools transfer into better ones, whether by open enrollment, new charter schools, scholarships to attend private school and homeschooling.

But the debate is quickly changing. Future conversations are likely to be about customizing education to best suit children’s individual learning styles and finding the right learning environment to let children reach their highest potential.

Consider the exciting innovations that are occurring with online or virtual learning. Across the country, more than 1 million children are participating in various forms of online learning. These programs include full-time virtual schools, supplemental online courses and classroom-based online instruction.

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Virtual charter school back on track

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:50:22 +0000

An embattled virtual charter school startup is now back on the road to operating thanks to a recent change in state law and a new alliance with a small Okfuskee County school.

Sponsorship by Graham Public School near Weleetka means that Epic One on One Charter School will soon be enrolling as many as 2,000 public school students from across the state for the 2011-12 academic year.

“We’re real excited to finally be able to be getting our school up and running and to begin to fill a gap that exists in the public school system in our state,” said David Chaney, founder of Epic.

Epic had hoped to open its strictly online program in August for the 400 or so students whose parents had signed them up, including 100 from the Tulsa area. But the school ended up in a legal battle when its purported sponsor, the University of Central Oklahoma, denied having a valid charter school agreement.

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OK virtual school enrollment at 2,593

admin — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:28:24 +0000

Virtual schools are growing across the nation offering students access to teachers, courses, text books and other students online.

According to the data released for the 2010-2011 school year, Oklahoma had 2,593 students enrolled in virtual schools where the student didn’t attend a physical school but received all of their course work and instruction online from a distance.

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Oklahoma has new online high schools site

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:16:57 +0000

Welcome to yet another state-specific website for online high schools. Brought to you by Best Online High Schools, this gives you information on all that is going on in your state with online high schools.