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Coming Monday: Virtual schools gaining popularity in Oklahoma

August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

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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Reintroducing the trustworthy banker

August 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

O’Leary began his banking career at The Bank of New York in 1964, and worked at banks in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. He served as a faculty member and thesis advisor at ABA’s Stonier Graduate School of Banking for more than two decades, and served as long as a faculty member for ABA’s undergraduate and graduate commercial lending schools.

Today he works as a consultant and expert witness, and serves as instructor for ABA e-learning courses and has been a frequent speaker in ABA’s Bank Director Telephone Briefing series. You can hear free audio interviews with Ed about workouts here.

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Okla. Education Department tells virtual charter school to stop off-site student enrollments

August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Department of Education warned a virtual charter school that will begin operations this fall to stop enrolling students from three locations because it may be illegal.

Epic One on One Charter School is chartered through Graham Public Schools in Okfuskee County. It has been enrolling pre-kindergarten students at locations in Oklahoma City and Norman and pre-kindergarten through 5th grade students in Tulsa.

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State Board of Education votes to change transfer policy

August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment

When she explained that the matter was particularly urgent because of a significant increase in parents applying for emergency transfers in order to enroll their children in online education programs, board member Lee Baxter questioned the practice itself.

“So your interpretation of the statute is that if a student wants to do all of his education through online courses, regardless of subject area or grade, and a receiving district approves that, then they go?” Baxter asked.

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Virtual charter school has physical site issues

July 31, 2011 By Leave a Comment

With Oklahoma’s first virtual charter school just weeks away from opening, state officials informed its founders that they went too far by establishing physical school sites in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Norman.

Epic One on One and officials at its sponsoring school district in Okfuskee County had billed the charter school as a strictly online program that would be enrolling as many as 2,000 public school students from across the state for the 2011-12 school year.

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Conflict arises in Oklahoma concerning student transfers to virtual schools

July 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Barresi said the law needs to be followed, but the board can come back next year to clarify the rules or even support changes in legislation.

Robert Neel, executive director of accreditation and standards, said his department has denied about half of the emergency transfer requests.

“They’re asking for the opportunity to take virtual courses,” Neel said.

His team looks to see whether the school district the student is zoned to attend offers similar virtual education opportunities. If it does, Neel said, they denied the transfer.

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Q&A with Tulsa Public Schools athletic director Stephanie Spring

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

How do you arrive at each school’s ADM numbers?

“What we turned in to the OSSAA is our ADM that was generated through the state by pulling our attendance, and then we are required to add in our alternative schools, and we had to add into our projected ADM the number of Project Schoolhouse kids. We feel the data is as accurate as it could be on July 21. Are there variables outside of our control? Yes. There could be students projected to go to a certain school that opt to go to an alternative site or virtual school or change their mind and go to a magnet school, such as the culinary program at Hale or the broadcasting program at Webster. We can’t predict those. So that’s how the ADM we turned in was generated. The ADMs are hard-and-fast numbers. That’s how we got the numbers.”

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Virtual school offering classes

July 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Students can chose full time or part time status and have access to core classes and onsite electives.

The instructors are “highly qualified, certified teachers,” Kerns said. The virtual school director is Shawn Beard.

Also, in-person tutoring is available.

“In fact, if a student is slipping, they are required to meet with a tutor,” Kerns said.

The program is open to home school students, traditional students, and college bound students, Kerns said.

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Deal OKs funds for charter schools

July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Charter school advocates and their legislative allies are vowing to push a constitutional amendment this winter to essentially reverse the ruling.

Association Executive Director Tony Roberts said Thursday’s order will not affect two state-approved charter schools that were approved by their local school boards since the court decision, new charter schools that decided not to open this fall and several virtual charter schools, which conduct classes online.

The following schools will receive additional state funding under Deal’s order

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Online School Expects To Double Enrollment

July 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Tulsa Public School system has a new virtual learning program, using the Internet. Some students may never have to step into a traditional classroom again.

Newschannel 8′s Kim Jackson says organizers expect enrollment to grow this year.

This virtual school is going into it’s second year. But there is not much information. In fact there is not even a website-about a program that allows students to do almost all their work, at home.

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