Florida’s Online Option
Tucker, Bill
Education Next, Summer 2009, v9, #3, online edition
This article emphasizes the success of the state-run Florida Virtual School (FLVS), now a decade-old public education experiment. "This most radical of choice based schools—where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance-based, demand-driven model—has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts. And, free from the geographic constraints and facilities costs of traditional schools, FLVS has grown rapidly, scaling up to match the considerable demand for the school’s courses. In the 2008–09 school year, approximately 84,000 students will complete 168,000 half-credit courses, a 10-fold increase since 2002–03."
Bill Tucker is managing director at Education Sector.
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http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/Floridas_Online_Option.html
E6/04-09, Posted July 28, 2009
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