Haslam virtual school bill advances
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Republican bill to tighten enrollment requirements for online-only schools was softened in a House subcommittee Tuesday, while a Democratic proposal to ban private companies...
View ArticleSummer Shelton: Criticisms of grading at online school unfounded
Online schools are different from traditional schools. At TNVA, students work on their own individualized learning program and at their own pace, so measuring individual progress is important. There is...
View ArticleHemlock Semiconductor Corporation and Austin Peay State Univerity STEM Job Fairs
Nashville, TN – Tennessee State Representative Joe Pitts (D-Clarksville) will propose an amendment to House Bill 0151/Senate Bill 0157 proposed by the Department of Education regarding virtual schools....
View ArticleVirtual school bill advances after attempt to ban the school fails
NASHVILLE (AP) – A Republican bill to tighten enrollment requirements for online-only schools has been softened while a Democratic proposal to ban private companies from running them has been derailed....
View ArticleMetro schools offer spring math credits
Metro students who are short the fourth math credit needed for spring graduation have help in sight. Metro Nashville Public Schools Virtual School is offering Bridge Math Intensive, which starts during...
View ArticleJack McElroy: Tennessee getting schooled by K12
The chairman of the board when K12 launched in Tennessee was Andrew H. Tisch of the Loews Corporation. He used to be CEO of the Lorillard Tobacco Co. and was one of the executives who famously told...
View ArticleMetro schools offer spring math credits
Metro students who are short the fourth math credit needed for spring graduation have help in sight. Metro Nashville Public Schools Virtual School is offering Bridge Math Intensive, which starts during...
View ArticleCoordinated effort can help boost struggling schools
Communication is critical, and that is what led me to think about a system IEP. Both educators and advocates in Tennessee agree that our schools are not performing to the level desired, but we often...
View ArticleGovernor signs virtual schools legislation
The administration legislation allows beginning online schools to start with an enrollment of 1,500 and continue to expand as long as they meet performance requirements. If they fail to do so for three...
View ArticleEx-lobbyist: Public education endangered
From school vouchers to charter schools, a former Tennessee Education Association lobbyist painted a verbal portrait of an endangered public education system at a recent “Lunch with the League”...
View ArticleBack to School: Virtual school expands learning opportunities
Educators encourage virtual courses because online learning has been integrated into the curricula of most community colleges and universities.But a common misconception with virtual programs is that...
View ArticleVirtual school becomes business and marketing academy
As the first Tennessee school district to offer public virtual school, Metro Nashville is going a step further by having the first virtual school to adopt the academy model, officials said this...
View ArticleMetro Nashville’s virtual school becomes first of its kind in TN
As the first Tennessee school district to offer public virtual school, Metro Nashville is going a step further by having the first virtual school to adopt the academy model, officials said Monday....
View ArticleVirtual academy set to expand despite low test scores
Another Tennessee school district is jumping on the virtual school bandwagon, despite student test scores that ranked the state’s first publicly funded virtual school amongst the lowest in the state....
View ArticleState flunks Campbell virtual school’s application
Nidiffer said about 250 students who completed the eighth grade through the Union County virtual school last year had signed up to take classes through the Campbell County system this year, along with...
View ArticleOfficials refuse to approve second virtual school in Tennessee
Efforts this year by the nation’s largest for-profit online education company to open a second statewide virtual school under contract with Campbell County schools are a no-go with the state for now....
View ArticleLocal group takes aim at virtual schools
According to achievement data retained by the state Department of Education, 52.9 percent of the virtual school’s 3-8 students’ scores demonstrated below a basic mastery in math and 18.9 percent scored...
View ArticleLocal families stand behind online school
For the second year in a row, Tennessee’s only online public school scored at the bottom level on standardized tests, but school administrators and local parents insist the alternative curriculum...
View ArticleBroken Promise: Tennessee Virtual Academy failing our students
In the book, The Abilene Paradox, the author describes a family that makes a Sunday afternoon trip to Abilene when none of the members really want to go. They just go along because they assume everyone...
View ArticleTN virtual school hits bottom, gets reprieve
Students at the Tennessee Virtual Academy, an online school run for profit, learned less than their peers anywhere else in Tennessee last year, data released by the state last week show, but efforts to...
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