High school principal Kent Kirkland and assistant principal Toni Tucei told the board the district has some students who could have graduated last year, if they had successfully completed the high school course, but were unable to graduate with their class, even though they had passed state curriculum tests in the courses they had failed.

In a related matter, Cindy Burgess, the mother of student being home schooled because he competes on the road in motorcycle events asked that her son be allowed to take high school courses through the Mississippi Virtual Public School so he could earn a diploma.

Burgess said she knows that Pearl River County School District has some students enrolled in the school taking a physics course because PRC school district superintendent Dennis Penton told her that it was cheaper for the students to take the courses on line than it was for the school district to hire a physics teacher.

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National virtual education provider Connections Academy has been awarded the contract to operate Mississippi’s statewide supplemental online program, the Mississippi Virtual Public School.

The Legislature voted last spring to contract with an outside provider to deliver the MVPS which was previously operated by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Connections Academy, headquartered in Baltimore, Md., was selected as the turnkey provider through a rigorous Request for Proposal process by MDE.

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Mississippi Virtual Public School

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