BOE reconsidering the Virtual Academy, Leader in Me, and Innovative School Year Calendar

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

The cost of the program isn't an issue. The size is small due to staffing. They run waitlists. Why are you so obsessed with this? It's cheaper to have kids in virtual and it saves space. Win for all.

So, what do you do with all the special education kids? If you send them to privates that could be $80K+ a student or more. And, how many schools do you think have openings on short notice?

It's not cheaper to have kids in virtual if the number of students is so small that it doesn't actually affect the resourcing at the homeschools. And that's obviously the case here. So VA becomes quite expensive because it is strictly *in addition* to what we're spending on schools, not an *alternative* to what we're spending on schools. A kid dropping out of their homeschool for VA doesn't save any money for the homeschool.

So yes, cost is absolutely an issue, particularly until you get to a much larger scale.

And the kids that need the supports that require private placements aren't going to VA, given that that comes with none of those supports.

The homeschool is not relevant. Did you listen to the testimony? Yes, there are kids who would otherwise be in highly specialized placements.

You keep bringing up the in-person schools through your false claims that it is cheaper to have kids in virtual. It isn't. The homeschools are effectively fixed costs. Removing a small number of students from the homeschools and placing them in VA doesn't decrease the costs of the homeschools, but it does add an entirely new set of costs at VA. It is more expensive to have VA than to send kids to their homeschools.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

You keep posting but no it would not be. Why do you care so much?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

You keep posting but no it would not be. Why do you care so much?

You can't cost-effectively staff a school when entire grades are fewer than 40 kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

Agreed. Virtual does not work for elementary school kids

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Do kids have to turn their cameras on or they can keep them off?

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids have to turn their cameras on or they can keep them off?

On

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids have to turn their cameras on or they can keep them off?

On

Visit any VA classroom and you'd know this isn't true.

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Anonymous wrote:Do kids have to turn their cameras on or they can keep them off?

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Visit any VA classroom and you'd know this isn't true.

How do you visit one?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

Agreed. Virtual does not work for elementary school kids

Actually it does for some. Listen to the testimony.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

They had no data or information to back up what they were saying and they were one of the original folks who started the MVA and group so if it is a failure to them, it's their failure. There is NO current data.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

Agreed. Virtual does not work for elementary school kids

Actually it does for some. Listen to the testimony.

It works for them in the same way giving dessert to kids for dinner every night works. They love it, and they’re technically eating, but all the experts will tell you that’s it’s a bad idea for a developing child to eat that way.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the cost differential would to farm out, the handful of kids who still want to do virtual out to k-12 or another virtual program.

Absolutely fine with getting rid of leader in me (majority of schools already quit the program). I would be curious to know if eSY calendar actually did anything impactful for the students at Arcola/Nix . I always thought it was bizarre that Rosco nix a primary school adopted a different calendar than its sister school Cresthaven

Arcola said it was very helpful and numbers improved. They want it. Nix doesn't want it. You should have paid attention.

Who would they far it out to?

K12 being the obvious answer. But I strongly suspect it would be more expensive. K12 would need to carve out a curriculum for MCPS, so it doesn't solve the current problem with lack of scale.

The only practical long-term solution is for the state to establish a program that would serve students across all the counties. They'd probably need to contract that out to K12, but then they might have enough students to make it scale.

K12 isn't an equal program to MCPS. They don't have live teaching and they don't have special education supports. And, the MVA could be expanded as it has a waitlist, which you seem to forget.

K12 does live teaching in the states where they've partnered to do so. They could do it, but yes, it would almost certainly be more expensive than MCPS doing it itself. As I said, the only path that makes sense is MSDE taking it on for the entire state, at which point it might be large enough to scale effectively. And since, as others have pointed out, MSDE doesn't operate schools, the natural implementation path would be contracting out operations to an entity like K12.

VA isn't even close to enrollment levels that scale. First and second grades have less than 40 kids a piece!

Why do you want a state school? It's bizarre and you post it everywhere.

They don't have the size as they don't have the funding. They don't have more teachers to let more students in and keep regular classroom numbers. There is a waitlist.

A state school would be more cost effective in terms of staffing. It’s sad that Maryland is one of the few states that doesn’t already have this. Why do you keep bullying the PP that keeps bringing this up? You seem insecure in Maryland’s education system and very defensive. Did you know Maryland is also behind states likes Mississippi in reading education? Stop pretending like our system is perfect

+1. So weird. A state school would also likely solve some of the issues people are complaining about- e.g. variety of classes, including APs, because it would draw from a bigger pool of students. MVA is not really that great when you compare it to state programs across the country.

I agree with the NAACP Parent Council reps who testified to the BOE that the MVA isn’t working as a replacement for full time in person school, especially with younger kids, and that virtual school by MCPS should at most be used to supplement in person schooling. Leave full time virtual to the state

They had no data or information to back up what they were saying and they were one of the original folks who started the MVA and group so if it is a failure to them, it's their failure. There is NO current data.

Gotta admit I’d didn’t have “MVA supporters blame NAACP for failure of program” on my bingo card.