Virtual School Startups: Founder Processes in American K-12 Public Virtual Schools

Traditional school districts do not have a lot of experience with virtual schools and have lost students to state and charter virtual schools. To retain students and offer alternative learning opportunities, more public districts are starting their own virtual schools. This study was an examination...

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Autores principales:	Brett Drushal Taylor, Delores E. McNair
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2018
Materias:	virtual school K-12 online learning organizational structure traditional public school districts foundational processes Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/140d2cdbabc24591b0752efbfa09ee6e
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:140d2cdbabc24591b0752efbfa09ee6e2021-12-02T17:16:18ZVirtual School Startups: Founder Processes in American K-12 Public Virtual Schools10.19173/irrodl.v19i1.32051492-3831https://doaj.org/article/140d2cdbabc24591b0752efbfa09ee6e2018-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3205https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Traditional school districts do not have a lot of experience with virtual schools and have lost students to state and charter virtual schools. To retain students and offer alternative learning opportunities, more public districts are starting their own virtual schools. This study was an examination of foundational processes at three California virtual schools in traditional school districts. An analysis of the findings revealed that sites perceived the establishing founder, preliminary research, district support, teacher and staff selection, financial evaluation, and curriculum decisions as keys to the founding process. The analysis also led to surprising conclusions, including the need for virtual schools to constantly change and adapt and the focus in this study of organizations over technology. The findings have implications for traditional districts starting virtual schools. The study also indicates that changes in policy could reduce the need for organizational adaptation among virtual schools in traditional school districts. Brett Drushal TaylorDelores E. McNairAthabasca University Pressarticlevirtual schoolK-12 online learningorganizational structuretraditional public school districtsfoundational processesSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 19, Iss 1 (2018)
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description	Traditional school districts do not have a lot of experience with virtual schools and have lost students to state and charter virtual schools. To retain students and offer alternative learning opportunities, more public districts are starting their own virtual schools. This study was an examination of foundational processes at three California virtual schools in traditional school districts. An analysis of the findings revealed that sites perceived the establishing founder, preliminary research, district support, teacher and staff selection, financial evaluation, and curriculum decisions as keys to the founding process. The analysis also led to surprising conclusions, including the need for virtual schools to constantly change and adapt and the focus in this study of organizations over technology. The findings have implications for traditional districts starting virtual schools. The study also indicates that changes in policy could reduce the need for organizational adaptation among virtual schools in traditional school districts.
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Virtual School Startups: Founder Processes in American K-12 Public Virtual Schools

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