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Investigation finds lax oversight of online education
- 10-06-2011
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By Nancy Mitchell and Burt Hubbard/Education Week
Five years ago, state auditors blasted the Colorado Department of Education for failing to monitor online public schools that, among other issues, improperly funneled public money to private schools and maintained licensed teacher-to-student ratios of 4 to 1,500. In a 10-month investigation, Education News Colorado and the I-News Network filed open-records requests, analyzed data, and interviewed district, state and online education officials to examine what has happened to state oversight of online education since that 2006 audit. What emerged was a pattern of lax oversight for online programs, decisions that favored politically–connected online schools with lobbying muscle, and a failed attempt by lawmakers to fix the system. (more...)
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