You are here: Home / Archives for Georgia Cyber Academy

Cyber Schools: Classrooms In Georgia Going Virtual

November 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Field trips are included in the lesson plan at least twice a month to help boost to face-to-face interaction between student, parent and teacher.

Cyber school is all Jenny Allen’s two kids have ever known.

Her 7th and 4th grade children started cyber school in Kansas before moving to Georgia.

“It makes them feel grown up, high-tech… it’s the future,” said Allen.

Georgia Cyber Academy offers instruction for grades K-through-9. Find more information here.

For the rest of the article, go to Cyber Schools: Classrooms In Georgia Going Virtual

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, online high schools Tagged With: ,

Cyber Academy freshmen OK’d

August 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Early last week, the school board upheld a decision by the State Charter School Commission denying a charter for the Georgia Cyber Academy and another virtual school applying to offer classes for high school students.

Since June, administrators had been trying to find a way to continue offering courses to 660 rising freshmen, and now can finally begin to look for teachers and send out textbooks, according to Renee Lord, who serves on the board of the virtual school and is president of the Georgia Families for Public Virtual Education.

For the rest of the article, go to Cyber Academy freshmen OK’d

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, online high schools Tagged With: , ,

Cyber school supporters say charter commission depriving students

August 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Georgia Charter Schools Commission is facing another legal fight over how it divvies up funding.

Georgia Families for Public Virtual Education will be bringing its attorney to the Aug. 19 commission meeting to urge the board to reconsider a move the group says “illegally” sets insufficient funding for cyber schools, which teach via the Internet.

The commission has decided to fund cyber charters at a lower level than traditional charter campuses. Charters in buildings receive a combination of federal and state funds plus a controversial local matching share of tax dollars. Cyber charters receive everything but the local matching share. Georgia Cyber Academy, the state’s only virtual school, has about 6,000 students.

Cyber school supporters say they are not looking for full funding but virtual schools need substantially more money to educate students competitively.

For the rest of the article, go to Cyber school supporters say charter commission depriving students

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, online high schools Tagged With: , ,

Georgia Needs to Log On to Online Learning

July 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment

The Georgia Supreme Court charter school funding decision, expected this fall or next year, will be an important milestone to determine how online schools are funded, said Ryan Mahoney, board chairman for Georgia Cyber Academy. The school is the largest and currently the only online K-8 school in Georgia, with 6,000 students.

“Judge (Wendy) Shoob clearly found in favor of (charter) schools. Money follows the child,” said Mahoney, who is also public policy director for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.

“The same in our judgment would apply to virtual schools. If you are no longer in a brick and mortar school, the money should also follow the student.”

Georgia has struggled for years to overcome a reputation of lagging in the K-12 education arena, with students underprepared for the rapidly changing economy. The message was reinforced this week when the state reported 67 percent of Georgia high schools and 29 percent of all schools failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress under federal No Child Left behind guidelines.

For th rest of the article, go to Georgia Needs to Log On to Online Learning

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, online high schools Tagged With: ,

Advocate calls for expanding cyber academy

July 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

At the school, students spend a portion of their time on a computer, where some of their work or questions are reviewed by state certified teachers in conjunction with parents. Each year, they must take and pass state tests.

“I like the curriculum, and I like having someone else teach my child at home,” Lord said. “We have families from the southern part of the state from schools that have not made AYP in years, and the children are able to attend Georgia Virtual Academy and those children are doing really, really well.

“It’s not for everyone, but for the people it works for, it’s a wonderful choice.”

The state’s Charter School Commission last month rejected a petition from Georgia Cyber Academy to allow the school to offer high school classes because it did not meet state performance benchmarks in math and allowed a teacher to serve on the governing board, according to Mark Peevy, the commission’s executive director.

For the rest of the article, go to Advocate calls for expanding cyber academy

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, online high schools Tagged With: ,

More delays for state’s first cyber charter school growth

July 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Georgia’s first cyber charter school wants to expand services and increase funding for its 6,000 students, but can’t get the state approval it needs.

Following a rejected pitch for a high school, Georgia Cyber Academy supporters filed into a state Board of Education meeting this week and offered what they said was proof their methods work and academic gains have been made.

Department of Education staff recommended that their request be tabled and studied for another year instead.

For the rest of the article, go to More delays for state’s first cyber charter school growth.

Filed Under: bestonlinehighschools.com, news, online high schools Tagged With: , ,