The news from NEPC wasn’t all bad: Blended schools tended to perform better than their virtual counterparts, the researchers found, and virtual schools operated by districts or non-profit groups tended to perform better than those operated by for-profit education management organizations. Those findings mirror years of academic research and journalistic investigations that have consistently pointed to a pattern of atrocious performance and financial mismanagement in this niche segment of the nation’s public education system. ![]() Less than 43 percent of full-time virtual schools with ratings by their state accountability systems were deemed acceptable. In 2019-20, the researchers found, the graduation rate in full-time virtual schools was just 54.6 percent, 30 points lower than the national rate. For the entirety of that time, the available evidence has pointed to poor academic performance across the sector. NEPC has released annual reviews of K-12 online education for the past decade. While systematic data on virtual-school enrollments this school year are not part of the NEPC report because they are not yet available, anecdotal evidence hints at continued enrollment gains. ![]() ![]() An additional 306 “blended” schools, in which instruction takes place both online and face-to-face, enroll a combined 152,530 students.Īltogether, enrollment in the nation’s full-time virtual and blended schools is up by more than 50,000 students since 2017-18. K-12 public school students during the 2019-20 school year, the report found. A total of 477 full-time virtual schools enrolled 332,379 U.S.
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