The activity’s No. 1 priority, she said, is to help students reach their fullest potential through a focus on high student achievement and a rich and varied curriculum.

Initiatives such as the virtual high school and language arts curriculum will make major inroads toward that goal, she predicted.

The activity’s virtual high school, new this school year, is an accredited distance-learning program for military students, whether they’re geographically separated, transitioning between schools or just dealing with a scheduling conflict. The virtual school offers students 48 online courses in a wide range of disciplinary areas, including foreign language, math, science, social studies, language arts and physical education, as well as 15 advanced placement courses.

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KENNEWICK, Wash.— While students head to their classrooms, many others are pulling up a chair to their computers. Administrators from an online school, Legacy High School, say they are seeing more students than ever before.

Legacy High School started three years ago, but this is the first year they are an actual high school. That means their students can receive high school diplomas from the school.

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The Department of Defense Education Activity’s virtual high school is an accredited distance-learning program for military students, whether they’re geographically separated, transitioning between schools or just dealing with a scheduling conflict.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to close gaps and enhance students’ educational experience in a 21st century environment,” Marilee Fitzgerald, the activity’s acting director, said. “I think it opens up possibilities for learning that we have yet to understand, yet to explore.”

The virtual school offers students 48 online courses in a wide range of disciplinary areas, including foreign language, math, science, social studies, language arts and physical education, as well as 15 advanced placement courses. The school also is equipped to offer English as a second language and special education, Patricia Riley, chief of the activity’s distance learning and virtual school, said.

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High school can be tough, but Insight Schools of Washington is aiming to help out students who are unsuccessful in a public school setting.

The program offers a tuition-free, online alternative to traditional high school, said Jeff Bush, executive director of the Washington school.

“We are a public school without the brick and mortar,” he said.

The program offers more than 120 courses led by state-certified teachers. The students are provided all the materials they need for the school, including a headset with microphone for the interactive portions of class, a printer and a laptop computer. Access to the site is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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He has taught from remote parts, such as Southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante, and has found that mountaintops “work pretty well” for online satellite links.

He said he typically gets online first thing in the morning for about two hours, spends time with his daughter and wife, puts the baby down for a nap, hops online for two hours after 1 p.m., then for two more hours in the evening.

He has been teaching for Olympus High for 20 months.

Not only can he work at his own pace, but so can his students.

Olympus High School, online at www.olympushighschool.net, is a private school operated out of Bellingham, and 11-month full-time tuition is $1,900.

It was founded by Apollo Group, which also founded University of Phoenix — an institution with a 20-year tradition of providing education online.

It is a branch of the Insight Schools at www.insightwa.net.

Insight School of Washington, which operates through the Quillayute Valley School District in Forks, is a public high school.

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Beginning this fall Washington State University will accept freshmen into its four-year fully online degree programs. Previously, the Pullman institution has offered its online-only classes to adult students who wanted to finish their degrees. The new policy will allow even applicants newly graduated from high school to take their courses entirely online.

However, unlike other online-only programs recently announced at other universities, this one will retain its higher tuition fee structure for non-resident students. In the coming academic year, a full-time resident of Washington State will pay $4,296 for undergraduate tuition; a non-resident will pay $6,315.

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The superintendent explained credit flex requirements as a movement within the state to create flexibility for schools to give education credits for things outside of a traditional classroom – for example, virtual learning and internships.

“The state wants to extend to students different opportunities,” Brown said. “Our board wanted to extend students different opportunities in this district.”

Regardless of why the changes were made, though, the Robinsons were simply happy for their children – especially 12-year-old son Timmy.

“Timmy is excited because it effects him more immediately than the others,” Robinson said. “He wants to play football and that’s what generated our interest.”

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Individual attention can make or break a high school career for some students. Insight School of Washington, a tuition-free, online high school, provides flexibility and freedom, combined with a high level of access to teachers and individual instruction, to help students move from struggling to success.

Local parents and students are invited to learn more at an information session about Insight School of Washingtons statewide public high school program on Monday, August 2, in Everett.

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