No endorsement should be assumed for any organization due to its inclusion on this page. Thus, the nation's first Virtual Charter School was born two years ago. Operating under a state charter, the VCS provides free, online public education to students currently home schooled statewide. Home schooling is quickly becoming a hot issue in public education. Home schooling has almost doubled in large part because of the Internet.
Parents are able to pull down the same curriculum used in the public school.
I think you really have to ask them. Based on my own assessment, it is utterly impossible for technology to solve the problems of public schooling, because those problems are inherent in the system's design. Computers will not create competition, they will not inject the profit motive, they will not return decision making power to parents, and they will not give teachers the freedom to teach what and how they think best. The belief that computers can solve our educational problems is akin to believing that Soviet communism could have worked as efficiently as U.S. capitalism if only it had been more heavily computerized. No one ever suggested that implausible argument, and I can't imagine why so many people are making an analogous argument about our state education monopoly.