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Virtual school program lacking applicants
January 11, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
“We’ve gotten several calls from students currently enrolled in virtual schools, for example in Union County,” Locke said. “We’ve heard from some [parents] homeschooling their students and some enrolled in private schools.”
Locke said when his department gathers a sufficient number of people signed up, Robertson County can begin with its virtual program, which will be administered by the company Connection Learning.
“Connection Learning [representatives] has indicated students can begin as late as February and still be able to complete coursework by the end of the term,” Locke said.
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Dreams of many ride on Metro Nashville’s magnet lottery
January 1, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Her advisers offered AP calculus online through Metro’s Virtual School, but she opted instead to learn it from her brother, a student at Volunteer State Community College.
“I don’t need to go to a magnet school to get a good education,” Clarise said. “Some say it’s a better opportunity, but going there won’t make me any smarter.”
She works part time at White Castle, many days driving straight to work after school and not getting off until 10 p.m. She uses her dinner break to study and do homework, finishing up at home if she has to.
Academics come first, she said, and if her grades drop, she’ll definitely quit the job.
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New laws and new Hamilton County Schools chief mark year in education
December 30, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment
Some of public education’s most sacred cows vanished this year as the Tennessee General Assembly took on one of its most aggressive education reform sessions ever.
At home in Chattanooga, a changing of the guard also took place as school board members ousted Hamilton County’s five-year superintendent in favor of a longtime schools administrator.
In what reformers say were long-overdue changes, the Republican-controlled Legislature rewrote the teacher tenure law, stripped away teachers’ collective bargaining rights and enacted a teacher evaluation system that, for the first time, ties teacher performance to student achievement. The state also expanded the use of virtual and public charter schools.
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