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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Districts ‘needing to turn to online learning more,’ IDLA tells lawmakers - Spokesman Review
The Idaho Digital Learning Academy was established by the state in 2002 to offer online courses to Idaho school districts as a supplement to their district offerings, IDLA CEO Donna Hutchison told the Senate Education Committee this afternoon. Hutchison, who also presented to the House Education Committee this morning, said IDLA offers more than 160 courses to students in grades 7 through 12, and enrollments have been growing fast, from 700 students in 2003 to about 14,000 now, with more still signing up for this spring. Hutchison said IDLA anticipated only about 11,100 enrollments this year due to cutbacks, but has seen the opposite effect. “What we’re hearing from schools, based on the cutbacks that they’re experiencing at the local level, they’re needing to turn to online learning more,” Hutchison said. Last year, 98 percent of Idaho’s school districts participated in IDLA.
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