Re: [school-discuss] Homeschooling & FLOS

[Malc <malcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Um, OK that was a dream...
It was a good dream! Dream on!

Malc




--- Daniel Howard <dhhoward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Um, OK that was a dream...a cyber charter school is just an online 
> school that supports home schooling and/or flexible schedules for say
> 
> atheletes, not a school that uses the charter approach to divorce 
> themselves from district management/oversight, and in the case
> dreamed 
> about, from district IT management/oversight.
> 
> What we need is the concept of a Charter school that applies
> primarily 
> to IT, but maybe you have to do the whole Charter thing to have that.
> 
> I think I will take this as encouragement to contact any charter
> schools 
> in Ga just to see if they can more easily do IT things like
> Opensource 
> that break from district/county IT management.
> 
> Best,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> Daniel Howard wrote:
> > Cyber charter schools?  This sounds interesting...Can you or anyone
> else 
> > elaborate?  If there's a precedent for a school to become
> independent of 
> > their district IT department without having to go through all of
> the 
> > paperwork for curricular charter status, that would be of great
> interest 
> > to this group, I suspect.  Daniel
> > 
> > Mark Rauterkus wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I think that the questions about homeschooling are important.
> >>
> >> Likewise, it might be most productive to ask many of the same 
> >> questions about "charter schools." There are many 'cyber charter 
> >> schools' that have budgets and the capacity for hiring
> programmers, 
> >> teachers,  and rely upon computers that are given to the students
> / 
> >> families.
> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Ta.
> >>
> >>
> >> Mark Rauterkus Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> http://Rauterkus.blogspot.com
> >> http://Elect.Rauterkus.com
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Howard
> President and CEO
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
> 



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