The Valley View School District 365U school board will vote on a virtual charter school proposal from K12 Inc. and Virtual Learning Solutions Wednesday.
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School boards from the Wheaton 200, Oswego 308, Naperville 203 and Plainfield 202 school districts have already nixed the proposal. To open the virtual charter school, all 18 school districts -- which K12, Inc. chose -- needed to approve the measure, according to K12 officials.
You can read the full proposal from K12 and Virtual Learning Solutions on the district's website.
K12 officials said they had hoped to start the virtual charter school with 1,000 students, 14 K-8 teachers, eight high school, five special education teachers and three counselors.
If the virtual charter opened, K12 anticipated it would draw $8,000 per student from state funds that would otherwise go to the school districts.
For hours in a public hearing, Valley View school board members asked K12 officials for evidence that their virtual charter school provided a quality education for the students enrolled. They said the information they received lacked "proof of success."
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