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3 Rivers board approves K–8 virtual charter to recapture homeschooled students
Summary
The board approved sponsorship of Applegate Virtual Academy, a K–8 charter capped at 200 students that will use Open Ed curriculum; the district will report attendance and performance to the state and expects to contract Open Ed at $595 per student per month.
The 3 Rivers School District Board of Directors voted to sponsor a new K–8 virtual charter school aimed at enrolling local homeschool students and recapturing average daily membership funding, the board decided Wednesday.
Travis Osborne, who led development of the proposal, described the Applegate Virtual Academy as a locally sponsored virtual option that will use the Open Ed platform and be capped at 200 students initially. "We put together the Applegate Virtual Academy," Osborne told the board, explaining the…
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