Virtual Rip-Off
The questions about virtual charter schools continue to pile up. One proposed charter is especially troubling, because it looks to more than double its costs to the taxpayers for no apparent reason.
NJ Spotlight reports on the application:
NJ Spotlight reports on the application:
Wait a minute: Monmouth-Ocean Special Services wants approval for a virtual charter school? That makes no sense; they already run a virtual school:A fourth school that K12 is involved with, the New Jersey Virtual Charter School, an online high school for at-risk students in Monmouth County, is asking the state for another year to recruit students before it opens in 2013. K12 would be providing its curriculum, but the school would be operated by the Monmouth-Ocean Special Services Commission. [emphasis mine]
The New Jersey Virtual School (NJVS), operated by the Monmouth-Ocean Educational Services Commission, is the oldest and largest statewide, online option