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Article: Cyber school with a twist.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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Byline: Dan Hardy
Dec. 7--Katie Devanney, a 16-year-old from Paoli, likes the high school she has designed for herself. She takes three courses online through a Chester County cyber charter school but also takes a literature course for gifted students in the basement of a former church in West Chester.
The arrangement makes her a cyber-blended student who takes courses on a computer but also at the cyber school's gifted education center, where she is taught in person by teachers and sits next to other students.
She's also a pioneer in the evolution of cyber charters: 11 schools now educate 17,000 students statewide. Having a building ...