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Monday, April 21, 2008
Virtually independent: Online learning charter schools are growing, while state drops oversight suggestions - Andrea Jackson, Magic Valley
Idaho state officials are sending millions of dollars to operators of new Internet-based charter schools, but aren't checking how the money is spent, the Times-News has learned. Four online charter schools serving about 1 percent of the state's public school students received about $10.8 million in public money for the 2007-08 school year.... Unlike other schools, virtual charter schools are allowed to keep what they don't spend, which totaled about $4.58 million - and the State Department of Education isn't following the money trail.
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