Guest Commentary: Lance Izumi on How California Impededs Digital Learning.

There's a lot of California dreaming going on and the focus is improving the state's atmosphere for expanding online learning opportunities.
Earlier this fall, education blogger John Fensterwald called California a "backwater for K-12 online learning."
A few weeks ago, a plan to  an online learning initiative on the November 2012 ballot.
"The California Student Bill of Rights," the supporters say, would greatly expand high school online education, while breaking down geographic and other barriers that are denying many rural and urban students equal opportunities to attend a four-year public university.
Now, Lance Izumi, senior director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, using Digital Learn Now's online learning report, to show how California is short-changing students who want to take classes online.
"Jim Konantz, a top official at a large digital-learning company, says that he is surprised that much of the online-education technology "started out here in Silicon Valley, and we're the last to get on board here in California," Izumi writes.
Click here to read Izumi's complete article.