Demand for online education is growing among Oregon’s public school students. This fall is expected to be no different.
The debate over how to manage the rising need, though, pits entrenched forces, like the teachers’ union, against rising powers, like Oregon’s virtual charter schools. Rob Manning reports.
Oregon has a handful of online charter schools already in existence, but how to govern them is still in question.
Online schools raise questions that weren’t anticipated when Oregon’s charter school law was written.
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