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Saturday, January 17, 2009
JPS recruits homeschoolers for online learning classes - Claire Cummings, Jackson Citizen-Patriot
Imagine rolling out of bed when fellow students are heading to lunch. Instead of going to school, you fire up a computer and attend classes while still wearing your pajamas. That might sound fun to some and frightening to others, but Jackson Public Schools is one of 12 school districts in the state that is trying it out. The district received a seat-time waiver from the Michigan Department of Education last May to allow some of its students -- up to 150 -- to take as many online classes outside of school as they wish. Administrators have not encouraged any of the district's own high schoolers to take more online courses outside school but recruited about 10 homeschoolers to enroll in the district to take online electives.
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