The Black River Falls School District now has established a virtual school option for students in an effort to recapture those who are open enrolling out of the district.

The school board voted 6-0 to adopt its virtual school policy and handbook after conducting a second reading at its regular meeting Monday. Member Ron Wirtz asked Superintendent Ron Saari if the district is going to implement any informational campaigns to attract parents and students to the program.

“Right now, we’re not doing a marketing plan for it at this point because it’s so late. A lot of the kids — their schedules — were already created back in January, February and March,” Saari said.

“What we’re hoping to do is try to attract some of those other parents whose children were open enrolled out and try to recapture some of them and then next year (use) that in a marketing form for the district.”

The district will now partner with the Wisconsin Virtual School — a sixth- through 12th-grade supplemental online program — which was created through a partnership between the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 9. WVS works with school districts in the state to provide online learning opportunities for middle and high school students.

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