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2011 — Year in Review

December 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Southeastern school board discussed the possibility of using more offerings from Illinois Virtual High School System, already being used by the school. Superintendent, Todd Fox, also discussed realignment of administrative duties to be more efficient.

Elementary students gathered at the Kibbe Preserve in Warsaw to learn from Joe Cuehlo and his insect collection.

The Health Council of Illinois awarded Mike Gooding, of Bowen, the Heroes in Long Term Care award. Gooding was honored for his persistent work to recover from an accident and for helping other patients smile on a daily basis.

The effort to rebuild the pool in Bowen has been going on since 2007. The park board is waiting on funds and weather to cooperate so the deck and splash pad can be completed.

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Will Virtual Learning KO the Education Gap?

December 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In Chicago last year, a group of 60 former dropouts went back to school and got their diplomas. That fact alone might be nothing special, but these young men and women attended a virtual high school, taking classes entirely online.

CEO Ron Packard believes this is just one of the many opportunities his company, K12 (NYSE: LRN ) , can provide. Packard, who spoke at Fool HQ last week, explained that the Internet has revolutionized so many industries, but its impact on education has been relatively limited. K12 seeks to change that.

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CPS mulls deal to expand virtual education

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Virginia-based K-12 has been a forerunner in virtual classrooms since its creation a decade ago. It is now the nation’s largest for-profit education management organization, with more than 39,000 students in two dozen schools across the U.S.

K-12 opened Chicago’s Virtual Charter High School to much fanfare in 2006, part of a push under former CPS chief Arne Duncan to expand alternative education options for parents seeking tougher curriculum for their children or safer learning environments outside of traditional neighborhood schools.

Enrollment at the virtual charter school, which offers courses from kindergarten through high school, now tops 550 students and was one of the few public schools in the city last year to achieve “adequate yearly progress” mandated under No Child Left Behind.

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Rockford School District officials seek bigger role for virtual learning

October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

ROCKFORD — More than 60 high school students in the Rockford School District are taking virtual learning courses this fall, at least half of them enrolled in Advanced Placement classes they would otherwise be without.

Virtual learning courses were offered to students this year who opted for classes that weren’t full enough to hold a full class or for students who needed remedial courses.

Virtual courses were offered after the School Board agreed to only teach classes that were at capacity — with 29 or 30 students enrolled. So if 40 students signed up for AP biology, for example, some schools drew names; the first 30 were enrolled in the class, and the other 10 were out of luck, unless they opted for a virtual course.

Three course sources
This fall, 20 students are enrolled in an online course through Florida Virtual School, four are enrolled through Illinois Virtual School, and 38 students are enrolled in Brigham Young University Independent Study — an affordable program that also offers credit recovery.

More than half of those students are taking AP courses like art, biology, statistics, English and calculus, said Jon Malone, director of student support.

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Mendon, Illinois School District Announces One-to-One Student Laptop Project

July 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Acting on its commitment to ensure that the district’s 714 K-12 students graduate prepared for the challenges of a global economy, Mendon’s Community Unit School District No. 4 (CUSD #4) Superintendent Diane Robertson today announced a three-year partnership with the education and technology company Pearson that will put laptops in the hands of its students providing online learning, progress monitoring, and assessment that will personalize instruction for each child.

The initiative will begin this coming school year as high school freshmen and sophomores trade in their English and Math textbooks for their very own Apple MacBook laptops purchased by the district. Students will then easily access Pearson’s online comprehensive mathematics and literature programs — engineered for one-to-one classroom environments — that will guide each student on a personalized learning path with engaging and robust research-based content aligned to the new Common Core State Standards.

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D300 charter gets final approval for virtual school

July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Cambridge Lakes Charter School announced it has received the final approval from the state of Illinois to open the virtual school for students kindergarten through grade 12 from Community Unit School District 300 and across the state this fall.

That approval came in early June after the District 300 Board of Education voted in December to approve an amendment to its charter with Northern Kane Educational Corp., which operates the charter school. That amendment renewed the charter for Cambridge Lakes through 2014 and lengthened the Pingree Grove school’s program from the current preschool to eighth grade up to grade 12.

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120 Students Cross the Stage, Graduating from Online High School Recovery Program

June 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment

CHICAGO, June 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Youth Connection Charter School (YCCS) Virtual High School, a school designed to get struggling students on the path to success, hosted its second commencement of the graduating class of 2011 on June 17 at the Arturo Velazquez Institute. 120 students, many of which were prior high school drop outs, or struggling students, donned traditional caps and gowns today marking the completion of their high school requirements and for many, just a necessary step towards their college career.

“Last year’s graduation ceremony was historical because it was our first graduating class. This year will be just as historical because our graduating class has doubled and 70 percent of our students will be transitioning into college after graduation,” remarked Early King, YCCS Virtual High School Head of School. “It makes me extremely proud to see the results of the collaborative effort that each scholar, teacher, family member, mentor and faculty put in to make this day manifest itself.”

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Virtual Classrooms to Kill the Snow Day

June 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A growing number of schools are looking into ways the Internet can help students learn online on snow days when schools are closed, so learning can continue even while flakes fly and roads are closed.

“Virtual snow days,” where students do lessons online during bad weather, have been used for select high school programs and colleges for some time, and are now becoming a viable alternative to extending school calendars to make up real snow days and limit the interruptions they cause in student learning.

School closings during the winter months have a big impact because often meatier subject material is presented at that time of year as classrooms get to the heart of many of their curriculum. Many state achievement tests are scheduled during the winter months, compounding the pressure.

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Cambridge Lakes charter school starts open enrollment

March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

In December, the District 300 school board approved extending the charter through 2014.

The renewal includes implementation of a virtual learning program serving kindergarten through 12th-grade students. The program is expected to expand this summer.

Aside from the district’s charter approval, the school operates independently under the management of the Northern Kane Educational Corp.

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Leanna Landsmann: Blended learning: tech and teachers

February 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Blended learning can, but does not always, save money. It allows schools to expand course offerings, provides flexible scheduling and can re-engage dropouts. Some reports predict that more than 10 million students will participate in online instruction by 2015, up from 2.9 million in 2010.

How does it work? At the Chicago Virtual Charter School (CVCS), students study online from home four days a week and come to school for the fifth.

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