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    Students K-12 participate in innovative online program

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Do you believe in innovation.

As critically important.

To improving America's schools absolutely but like all innovations in a monopoly.

You have to tear down the barriers to allow it to accelerate with former governor of Bob Wise we've created.

An initiative called visual learning now.

They say.

It's part of a bigger agenda to take money from public institutions.

And give them to for profit companies the money follows a child and it stays in the public schools a lot of these -- We have fought.

And push back and -- because we were the first in many of these.

These more provocative reforms to.

To implement them before a virtual school is the largest of its kind in the country by far.

And when it was started to the world was supposed to come to an end.

The Florida Virtual School is an online program for students in kindergarten through twelfth grade.

It's now all pretty 49 states and 46 countries -- virtual schools free.

For any student resident of the state of war and they've been for -- forgiveness and me to accelerate graduation.

It may be -- us.

Went to.

Think something is alive and sort of after school the full time program that's the whole curriculum and they're taking.

All while at home schooled Republican pennant cancer -- singer and then.

I can't its sixteenth week.

Her fourteen to eight hours -- -- -- in full time students like at least thank you are expected to enrolled this year.

Almost 150000.

Kids take courses part time.

You get up around 8 o'clock.

O'clock high school and I probably work for at least four hours and I keep my doctor quick -- Pain once and then I come back here so frenetic few hours and then I think I think all kids learn differently.

And this is another avenue because it than their own time their own pace teachers are available from 8 AM to 8 PM every day.

I compliment saying hey thank you could like Cadillac lesson for -- things and they do it to never -- -- -- we have over thirteen hundred teachers they are all on home based they work one on one with the students they have more interaction.

With a student on line than they normally would in the classroom.

I emailed my teacher because I can really understand both students and teachers are accountable for great.

We do not get funded by the state and -- the students successfully completes the course I don't stay stating because -- Worked really hard every cent from the start -- -- Clinton -- book.

And I.

It's like really helpful for my -- I can -- back.

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