McCain supports increased federal spending for Virtual Schools
By Mimi Rothschild
John McCain, Republican nominee for President in 2008, recently expressed his beliefs about the need for expanded opportunities in virtual learning. He said in a speech given at the 99th Annual Convention of the NAACP, “We can also help more children and young adults to study outside of school by expanding support for virtual learning. So I propose to direct 500 million dollars in current federal funds to build new virtual schools, and to support the development of online courses for students. Through competitive grants, we will allocate another 250 million dollars to support state programs expanding online education opportunities, including the creation of new public virtual charter schools. States can use these funds to build virtual math and science academies to help expand the availability of Advanced Placement math, science, and computer science courses, online tutoring, and foreign language courses.”
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August 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 pm
C.Fasce,
This is wonderful that McCain tinks this way about virtual schools.Ihave been seriously thinking of doing this with at least my younger daughter as we struggle with her daily to get her into the class room.I really think she has separation agg. And it just breaks my heart to tell the teacher to hold her so I can go home.
On the other hand I keep just hoping every year will get better and that it may help her socially. But there are home school programs that get together on field trips and outings.And some local buisness taht offer programs.
I hope he does follow thru so that these home school programs can except more students each year.
Thank you,C.Fasce