Virtual Schools: Cyber Pie in the Sky? (via LA Progressive)
Sandy Hellebrand was concerned. She needed to find a school that could educate her son Gabriel, who has autism and was about to enter high school. Hellebrand thought she had found the perfect solution: She would enroll Gabriel and her two younger children…
Gabriel’s autism is less likely the cause of rejection than Dad’s high school teaching license’s potential for oversight.
What is the student to teacher ratio in a virtual school? Is there a state requirement concerning that ratio? What percentage of virtual school teachers are members of an education union? Does the state require that the founder and president of a virtual school have a backround in education? Or be certified to teach? Since the state funds the virtual school is there any upper limit on how much profit can be made by this corporate entity?