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Two Rivers Offers a Virtual High School
January 25, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
Monday night, the school board approved a virtual school that will allow students to enroll full- or part-time online.
The virtual school, which is now open to enrollment, allows students with different academic needs to find an education outlet.
“I think you’re looking at students who maybe don’t fit in the normal structure of a school day to take that, or you’re also looking at students who get behind in credits,” Fredrikson said.
“Often kids don’t fit into a traditional school, maybe they don’t get along with their classmates, maybe they have some issues where they’d be needed at home,” high school counselor Linda Luedtke said.
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TR board approves virtual school
January 24, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
TWO RIVERS — Ninth- through 12th-graders living within the boundaries of the Two Rivers School District now have another option for acquiring an education — the Two Rivers Virtual School.
School board members unanimously approved the virtual school at their meeting Monday evening, with Leigh Stegemann and Dick Rohrer absent.
The district has offered online classes from a variety of sources and also has a distance learning lab in which students can take classes taught elsewhere, but it hasn’t before had a complete virtual school.
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Extra Credit: National charter school movement critical of Wisconsin’s law
January 21, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment
The state’s ranking dropped two spots from 34th in 2010 to 36th out of 42 states with charter school laws last year, even after Gov. Scott Walker and Republicans in the legislature lifted the cap on virtual charter school enrollment, a change favored by charter school proponents.
But the report also shows that Wisconsin has the seventh-highest number of charter schools with 225 (if you consider charter schools per capita, Wisconsin ranks third).
That’s a sign that Wisconsin’s law is doing what it was intended to do — provide local innovative educational programming while protecting local property taxpayers, Department of Public Instruction spokesman Patrick Gasper said.
“Clearly many communities are taking advantage of this option in Wisconsin,” Gasper said, adding that Wisconsin also hasn’t experienced “the fraud and abuse of public money that has occurred in other states.”
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