Will Virginia’s General Assembly Kill Online Learning?

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Derrick A. Max

Derrick Max is Vice President of Policy at the Jefferson Forum and may be reached at dmax@jeffersonforum.org

Derrick A. Max

Derrick Max is Vice President of Policy at the Jefferson Forum and may be reached at dmax@jeffersonforum.org

Todd Hester

An ordained Presbyterian minister with over twenty years of service to the church. Originally from Travelers Rest, South Carolina, he received a BA in English from Furman University and an MDiv from Beeson Divinity School. He is formerly President and Founder of the Yorktown Foundation.

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Christian Braunlich

Chris Braunlich is Senior Advisor and former President of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. He may be reached at chris@thomasjeffersoninst.org

One of the hottest topics in education today is the growth of online learning or virtual schools. Today there are more than a million enrollments in K-12 online courses nationwide … and more than 200,000 of these are full-time students in full-time online schools. The ability to learn is no longer limited to classes held in a bricks and mortar building. And Virginia, home to some of the world’s premiere technology companies, ought to be a hotbed of this 21st Century learning, right?

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