The district adopted the Discovery Education Science program as the primary curriculum resource for science for children in second to fourth grades. Administrators say the online resource allows teachers to integrate curricula with virtual labs, reading passages, video clips and simulations.

The Bay Port iAcademy program provides tuition-free online education alternative for high school students. This is the first full school year the program is in place.

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Wisconsin students wanting to enter a virtual school this fall will have a place, say state officials.

The state Department of Public Instruction says this year’s wait-list is “exhausted.” The news comes just before the start of the academic year.

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The Department of Public Instruction says a waiting list for Wisconsin’s virtual schools has been exhausted. But Julie Thompson of the Coalition of Virtual School Families says not everyone who signed up will get into the school they originally chose. And she said many parents had waited so long to see if they’ll get in, that they dropped out.

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Just weeks before the start of the 2010-’11 school year, all of the students who applied to attend virtual charter schools using the state’s open enrollment program have been offered seats in the fall.

The state Department of Public Instruction announced on its website that the virtual charter school waiting list had been exhausted.

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A press conference was held Wednesday afternoon to announce our area will receive $11 million in Federal grant money to improve Internet services. The money will be used to lay fiber-optic cable to connect local government, schools and public safety.

“We currently do a lot with video distance learning, some with online learning, we’ve been limited in the past by the amount of work we can do because of the lack of bandwidth,” says Ross Wilson, CESA 10 Director of Education Technology. “This will give increased bandwidth to a number of school districts.”

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A conference in Madison this week will explore the growth of distance learning. Sponsored by UW-Madison, more than 800 educators will converge on Monona Terrace between today and Friday to talk about online education for K-12, college, and industry courses.

Of course, parts of the conference will be offered online, too.

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A Things have gone “remarkably well” so far for the virtual charter school in its first year of operation, said Leslye Erickson, the head of the school.

The McFarland School District contracted with the nonprofit Wisconsin Virtual Academy and K12 Virtual Schools to run and provide the research-based curriculum for the school, which has 488 students enrolled in kindergarten through high school.

Students come from all over the state, Erickson said, so orientations were held before school began to allow students, parents and teachers to meet face-to-face.

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KCDL’s products include Aventa Learning, with more than 140 core, elective and Advanced Placement courses; Keystone School, an online private school for middle and high school students; and iQ Academies, which are statewide online public schools for middle and high school students in six states.

In 2009, KCDL reported revenues of $34.7 million, growing 47.1 percent above 2008.

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