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No room in the virtual classroom

September 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

PICAYUNE — A state education official who helps coordinate a virtual on-line school says the program is so popular and in so much demand that all slots are now filled and no more applications are being accepted for now.

However, Tina Sellers, special projects officer with what is called the Mississippi Virtual Public School, said that as soon as the program is ready to begin accepting more applicants, school districts throughout the state will be notified.

In addition, Sellers said that some parents are under the impression that their child can graduate from high school through the program, but that is not the case. However, some of the courses offered in the program might help the student graduate, she said.

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Picayune school board approves cafetorium color scheme

August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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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Online program to serve Miss. students

August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

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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