Students of Virtual Schools Are Lagging in Proficiency - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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About 116,000 students were educated in 93 virtual schools — those where instruction is entirely or mainly provided over the Internet — run by private management companies in the 2010-11 school year, up 43 percent
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“E.M.O.’s” — educational management organizations, a term coined by Wall Street in the 1990s — now operate 35 percent of all charter schools, enrolling 42 percent of all charter school students, according to the report.
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for-profit companies (K12 Inc. leads this sector, with 65,396
