LONG BEACH, CA - SEPTEMBER 01: Fifth grade teacher, Angel Mikaele conducts class via distance learning from her room at Dooley Elementary School in Long Beach on Tuesday, September 1, 2020.

“Make high-quality instruction available to all students, irrespective of where they live, bringing equality to education.” Those are the the pitches Proximity Learning and Elevate K12, rapidly ...

After questioning student performance at Alabama’s virtual schools, members of the Alabama State Board of Education said during their July work session that they may take a closer look at the schools’ ...

A teachers' union says its members are willing to go on strike over plans for a school in Lancashire to use a teacher based in Devon to teach its most-able maths students remotely. The Valley ...

For-profit companies, including Elevate K12 and Proximity Learning, offer districts the opportunity to fill hard-to-staff positions in everything from 6th grade reading to AP Physics, using virtual ...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – During the coronavirus pandemic, teachers have had to rewire and reimagine the way that they educate their students through virtual learning. “Emotionally I had to think about ...

Teaching staff at a secondary school in Bacup, Lancashire north-west England, took their first day of strike action on Wednesday to protest pupils being taught by a virtual teacher (VT). The walkout ...

Sabanna Yenna situates herself into a seat in the crowded Hinkle Fieldhouse, surrounded by 900 of her virtual classmates gathered in anticipation of Indiana Digital Learning School’s inaugural ...

The pandemic worsened a longstanding shortage of qualified teachers, especially for rural states in the Rocky Mountain West. Now, some Montana schools are turning to virtual teachers to fill the gap.

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Lone Star Online Academy promised students and staff they would stay open fall, despite years of F-ratings and accreditation warnings. A few weeks later, the school's parent district shut it down.