![]() COVA has struggled with poor academic performance in recent years amid questions about K¹² Inc.’s management of school resources-including teacher understaffing. Brian Bissell, head of the COVA board, confirmed the change that will go into effect during the 2014-2015 school year. Community Radio for Northern Colorado reports that Colorado Virtual Academy and K¹² Inc., the for-profit management company that oversees the school’s day-to-day operations, will be parting ways after the 2013-2014 school year. To Part Ways As New Online School Is Proposed “With the kind of technology, systems and process management needed to keep the enrollment machine running (and the machine is priority), there is never much time to actually teach.īy Darcy Bedortha, MS, MA, former K¹² teacherĬOVA, K¹² Inc. Glass, a Senior Researcher at the National Education Policy Center and Regents’ Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University.ġ5 Months In Virtual Charter Hell: A Teacher’s Tale If this trend doesn’t reverse itself, the only way you’ll be able to homeschool is by doing it illegally, under the cover of darkness, hiding your children from the truant officers during the day.īy Treon Goossen, co-author of our Colorado Homeschool Law.Įven public school advocates don’t like these online virtual academies. ![]() (Emphasis mine.)Īre you giving up your rights to homeschool? Many of you are … without even realizing it. … Neither the State Board of Education nor any local board of education has jurisdiction over the internal affairs of any nonstate, independent, or parochial school in this state. ![]() School Attendance Law makes school attendance at a public school compulsory unless the child “is enrolled for a minimum of one hundred seventy-two days in an independent or parochial school which provides a basic academic education”. (a) “Nonpublic home-based educational program” means the sequential program of instruction for the education of a child which takes place in a home, which is provided by the child’s parent or by an adult relative of the child designated by the parent, and which is not under the supervision and control of a school district.
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