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Virtual school offers K-12 distance learning option

October 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes education in a brick-and-mortar school just isn’t an option.

The Wyoming Virtual Academy (WYVA) offers an alternative.

The WYVA is an online school in which K-12 students can enroll part-time or full-time. Thought it is based in Lusk, the WYVA offers its services throughout the state.

According to WYVA school head Dr. Ed Weber, the academy began soon after the Wyoming Legislature approved funding for a statewide distance learning initiative. Weber first worked as a consultant in the school’s planning and beginning phases, but later became head of the school.

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Could virtual academy compete with home school?

September 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

While some think virtual education programs are drawing students away from traditional schools, the programs also are reaching into the home-school community.

Some home-schooling families are among those who have taken advantage of a recent agreement between Laramie County School District 1 and the Wyoming Virtual Academy, said Daniel Marquart, distance learning coordinator and community liaison.

But he said he isn’t sure how many of the school’s 106 students were formerly home-schoolers.

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Central Wyoming Fair vendors satisfy cravings intellectual and gastronomical

July 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Grab the side of the rudimentary wheel of fortune at the Wyoming Virtual School exhibit in the Industrial Building at the fair.

Give it a hard tug. Watch the marker trip by the dowels.

Phttttttttttt. Phtphtpht. Phtpht. Pht.

Congratulations. High school technology teacher Sharon Wise hands over the prize: a “Cruzzle”; “it’s a crayon….and a puzzle!”

The Wyoming Virtual School, sponsored through the Niobrara County School District, was among 135 nonprofit and commercial vendors who paid between $275 and $400 depending on location to promote their ideas and push their wares last week at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo, fair manager Tom Jones said.

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Virtual school seeking students

June 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

CHEYENNE — Parents looking for public school alternatives for their children have another option this year.

A public virtual school, or online school, is looking to attract students from Cheyenne looking for a different educational path.

The school, the Wyoming Connections Academy, recently moved its home base to Big Horn County School District 1.

However, it is still open to all students in Wyoming, Principal Ben Kolb said. It offers classes for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Virtual academies gaining local momentum

June 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Alternative learning is on the rise in Goshen County.

In 2009, the Goshen County School District (GCSD) joined the Wyoming Virtual Academy, a distance-learning program offered by the Niobrara County school district for K-12 students throughout the state.

Now another online public school, Wyoming Connections Academy (WYCA), has appeared on GCSD’s radar. This academy operates through Big Horn County School District #1 and enrolled a couple of Goshen County students last year.

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Virtual school info wrong

May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

An article printed on the front page of the Gillette News Record titled, “Virtual School may lose $70,000 next year” misleadingly suggested that somehow it is the fault of students that Campbell County Virtual School is not “making the grade” and students are responsible for the deficit in funding.

When you actually dig into the facts they plainly reveal the program has totally been mismanaged from the beginning and that is the reason for the deficit. Unrealistic milestone requirements which are directly tied to funding set up a no win situation from the beginning. Mismanagement without accountability equals a seemingly failing program on paper.

One CCSD administrator plainly told us when asked about the lack of information out in the public about CCVS: “If too many people went to CCVS or started traditional home schooling, some teacher might lose their job. And they might have a family to feed.”

That clearly shows more concern for jobs then students. Schools were not designed for the benefit of providing people jobs, but to educate students. They have lost their focus totally.

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Big Horn school district to offer virtual school

May 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A Big Horn County school district has partnered with a company to operate a virtual school that may be available to all Wyoming students.

Baltimore-based Connections Academy and Big Horn County District 1 have formed Wyoming Connections Academy.

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Virtual Schools Becoming Reality in Wyoming

May 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment

It seems like everything now days involves the internet or at least technology of some sort. The internet has taken over almost every aspect of human living and now it’s taking over schools! Taking online classes at universities and colleges became a reality in just the past several years but now students from around Wyoming could attend virtual school.

A school district in Big Horn County has partnered with a company to operate a virtual school that may be available to all Wyoming students. Wyoming Connections Academy is a newly formed virtual school started by Baltimore based Connections Academy and Big Horn County District 1.

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Wyoming virtual school moves from Jackson to Cowley

May 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Wyoming Connections Academy will switch school districts next year in an effort to enroll more students in the statewide online education program.

The academy is a public school that enrolls about 100 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The school receives state funding, hires Wyoming certified teachers, teaches to state standards and is bound to the same accountability requirements as other public schools.

The school has been under Teton County School District 1 since 2009 and will move to Big Horn County School District 1 in Cowley in the fall. Academy principal Ben Kolb said the Teton district wasn’t a good fit for a number of reasons and the school and district are parting on good terms.

The school district required students to have memoranda of understanding from their home districts. The memo stated that the student remained enrolled in his or her home district while the virtual school took responsibility for all academic programming.

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Wyoming, Godwin Heights dump shared superintendent system; tap insiders to lead districts

April 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Reeder, 48, is a Wyoming Park alumnus who has worked in the district’s central office the past 20 years. He said the community has changed much during that time — students eligible for free or reduced-price school meals has risen from about 10 percent to 70 percent, for example, and English language learners have grown from about 25 students to 800.

“I want people to look at Wyoming and have envy. We can lay a new foundation.”
Currently the associate superintendent, Reeder devised the launch of the district’s online academy, Frontiers. Exploring innovative ways to teach students will be key, he said.

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