The Georgia Department of Education issued a scathing report about the Georgia Cyber Academy for its handling of students with disabilities.
The state DOE warned that the online charter school might lose its charter.
The Georgia Cyber Academy is owned by for-profit K12.
K12’s stock price dropped recently after news of the poor performance of its Colorado Virtual Academy, whose graduation rate is 22%.
K12 is planning to expand into the lucrative Washington, DC, market.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Technology/connections should be used to strengthen communication/collaboration between public institutions and the learners they serve. Instead it’s being used to dismantle institutions, sanitize “curriculum” (I don’t like calling it that) and isolate learners socially. It feels like being unable to sleep at 3 AM and seeing Vince selling me the “shticky” or “sham-wow”.
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It leaves me cold the damage being done to education in the USA, and even more so when I realise it is all about to happen in NZ, too. Profits before people – a terrible way to run education.
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I’m at a loss to understand how to teach a struggling reader via online classes. I have to do it in person. When I’ve had students using computers, keeping students on task is part of it. Is anybody doing this with the online charters as students sit in front of computers?
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It is good to see the regulators finally starting to do their job.
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