Briana Leclaire of the Idaho Freedom Foundation states the facts bluntly: "Online school isn’t coming - it’s already here. So why are Idaho’s policymakers even slightly reluctant to offer kids more choices from among the thousands of course offerings provided by states, universities, for-profit and non-profit companies? Are we going to ride the online learning tidal wave, or is it going to crush us?"
She's right. With all of the ups and downs the virtual education movement has experienced in Idaho, the state still is among the nation's leaders in virtual education.
That said, the fight over virtual education continues and is as fresh as this morning's headlines.
Leclaire is worried. She believes the ongoing battles over online education could hurt Idaho."We could continue to let states embracing educational choice pass us by," she writes. "Stop letting the schoolhouse door be the digital divide."
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