Under the change, the number of out-of-county students enrolled in a district’s virtual program cannot be more than 50 percent of the number of enrolled virtual students who live in the district. Students also can enroll in virtual charter schools, and school districts can contract to use the Florida Virtual School model, create their own virtual schools or contract with private virtual providers.īecause virtual education has no defined borders, families can choose to enroll their students in virtual schools anywhere in the state.īut during the legislative session that ended in April, lawmakers put a cap on how many out-of-district students a county school district’s virtual program can accept. The state offers full- or part-time instruction through Florida Virtual School, the oldest and largest online provider. “It is a fair question that a 45-year-old funding formula that was designed in a world of zero school choice of any kind, not choice schools, not charter schools, not virtual schools, not private schools, it was ‘you will go to your neighborhood school and like it,’ does that funding formula still work in a world where more and more families are availing themselves of choice? I would argue that it doesn’t,” House PreK-12 Appropriations Chairman Randy Fine told The News Service of Florida in an interview Thursday.įlorida students have several virtual-school options. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted skyrocketing student enrollment in virtual education, putting a spotlight on competition among Florida providers - and igniting a debate about whether lawmakers should tweak the way public schools are funded as more students take classes online.
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