Last month, students across Oregon headed back to school, but the 2020 school year is much different than in previous years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, families were looking for alternatives to their local district-sponsored public school and some found a good fit in a virtual public charter school.
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We need your help on a quick project. Will you take a few minutes to complete our survey and tell why you chose a virtual public school for your child? As all Oregon students transitioned to distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, your responses to this survey are more important than ever and they will help inform state leaders about education options and alternatives to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools.
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Dear Virtual School Family,
Decisions will be made by state legislators this week that may deny parents online learning options. During the era of COVID-19 and uncertainty around classroom learning this fall, this is not the time to be telling parents we can’t choose the online learning environment we think will best suit our kids.
A bill will be debated in the State Legislature this week to temporarily lift the 3% per school district cap on online school enrollment. Lifting the cap will allow more parents to seek online alternatives for their children. That’s a good thing. But legislators are proposing to either nominally increase the cap or take it back down again next year. Either way you're just denying parents an important choice at this critical time. The right solution is to permanently and meaningfully lift the cap so that parents have access to online schools now and, if it’s working for them, in the future.
Some education special interests are trying to keep the 3% cap because they want to protect the status quo. This is wrong. Parents need to let them know we should decide what’s best for our kids, not bureaucrats.
CLICK HERE TO CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR! We only have a few days to influence this decision so please act today.
Thank you for all you do to support online school students.
Sincerely,
Tricia F. Powell
President
Oregon Virtual Public Schools Alliance