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Last week, key Republican and Democratic leaders in Wisconsin launched competing efforts to rewrite state law for virtual charter schools, which currently serve about 3,000 students. Rep. Brett Davis (R), chairman of the Assembly Education Committee, proposed that online charters be allowed to continue operating with few restrictions. Sen. John Lehman (D), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, said he is introducing a measure restricting online schools to half of the approximately $6,000 in state aid they currently receive for each student who transfers from a home district. His legislation was criticized as a threat to the economic survival of online schools by Republicans, the nonprofit Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families and the Northern Ozaukee School District. Virtual schools are under fire in the state. Last month, in a case filed in 2004 by the state teachers union, the District 2 Court of Appeals ruled that Wisconsin Virtual Academy was violating state law by allowing parents to assume the duties of state-licensed teachers. The court also held the school in violation of a law requiring charter schools to be within the district that operates them.
Source: Wisconsin State Journal
Date: 01/10/2008
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