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Oregon Schools Must Go Digital Part II

by Jerry Dawson Tuesday, July 29. 2008

bus.serendipityThumb Oregon Schools Must Go Digital Part IIFor all the naysayers who chimed in on my call for growing the Connections Academy on-line enrollment statewide to save energy and money, these facts might be of interest:

1. Twenty-six states now have statewide virtual schools.

2. Total enrollment nationwide in state-accredited on-line classes is over one million students.

3. One on-line school in Florida has over 54,000 students enrolled.

4. The on-line market for teaching school-age children is currently 300 million dollars a year and it is growing at a rate of 30% per year.

5. If current trends hold, over half of all high school classes will be conducted on-line by the year 2019.

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  • Bob Clark

    It is good see alternative forums for education besides the monolithic, one size fits all, public school system. I also see the competition as potentially lessening the grip of government employee unions over state and local government by checking the size of the public school system.

  • Anonymous

    Oh please that’s way too progressive for progressives to accept.

  • Joanne Rigutto

    That’s great. I believe that choice is a good thing and that parents should have choices for the education of their children, especially in primary and secondary school (gradeschool and highschool when I was in the system).

    I applaud those parents who are involved in their children(s) education be they using the public school system, a private school system, traditional home schooling or a system like Connections Accademy.

    I just didn’t think that trying to get all kids in Oregon into this type of system was realistic or a good thing.

    Good on ya, Jerry, for getting the word out.

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