Virtual Schools Start In Tennessee
Eighteen-year-old Michael Williams missed so many days in his senior year due to his professional Motocross career that he turned online to Metro Nashville’s virtual school program to finish his school work in order to get his diploma.
That opportunity will be open to many more Tennesseans this year after a new law allows any school district to start its own virtual school that students can enroll in full or part time from their laptops.
The Tennessean reported that previously students in Tennessee could only take online classes for credit recovery, specialty courses if a school had no instructor, or supplemental online courses after school or in the summer.
The law lets school districts choose to manage their own virtual schools, or sign agreements to work with other districts..
