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04/05/10 — Here we go ! HB 1362 to heard in the Senate Education Comittee Wed. April 7 @ 1pm

Senate Education Committee This Wednesday 4/7 @ 1pm
Please come to show support ! Only the Sponsor Delegate Boteler can give testimony. But he will be submitting our written Testimony.
Here is the address:
Miller Senate Office Building, 2 West Wing 2nd floor Education Committee Room
11 Bladen St., Annapolis, MD 21401 - 1991
(410) [...]

04/01/10 — Hope for a Brand New School Option in Maryland Grows Bright!

Senator Katherine Klausmeier’s office stated that House Bill 1362 passed the Rules Committee today and is being forwarded to a standing committee for their consideration. With a near unanimous vote in the House of Delegates(-1), Marylanders can be confident that this is a Law worth having. But, HB1362 must come out of Committee to the [...]

03/31/10 — Urgent Please Read!

HB 1362 is currently in the Rules Committee in the Senate. We need your help once again to get the bill out of this committee.
Please contact.
Maryland Senator KATHERINE A. KLAUSMEIER Chair of Rules Committee
Democrat, District 8, Baltimore County
(410) 841-3620, (301) 858-3620
1-800-492-7122, ext. 3620 (toll free)
e-mail: katherine.klausmeie r@senate. state.md. us
fax: (410) 841-3085, (301) 858-3085
I can’t [...]

03/30/10 — WHAG News Station coverage

Reported by: Jackie Cutler
Tuesday, March 30 2010
ANNAPOLIS, MD - Students in Maryland may soon be able to receive an education without ever stepping foot in a classroom.
On Tuesday, the House of Delegates passed a resolution that would give parents the option to choose virtual schooling.
Some private schools in Maryland offer cyber-schooling and a few public [...]

03/30/10 — HB1362 passed the MD House of Delegates!

We passed the MD house now off the the MD Senate! More details to come.
Please start making your calls to your Senators!
Thank you House of Delegates !

03/26/10 — March 24th , 2010 Families joined together and went to Annapolis in support of HB1362.


03/10/10 — Jim Devereaux No More Snow Days

Maryland House Bill 1362 proposes the addition of a virtual school as part of the public school system. A virtual school uses the Internet to deliver a significant portion of instruction to students in remote settings (irrespective of weather).

03/10/10 — Cyber School:Get a Virtual Education at Home WHAG TV Report

Cyber School: Get a Virtual Education at Home FREDERICK, MD - Two Maryland delegates from the four-state region are sponsoring a bill that would give parents another option when it comes to where their child attends school, and the student wouldn’t have to go very far.

02/24/10 — House Bill 1362 Supports Virtual Schools in Maryland

HB1362
Synopsis:
Authorizing a county board of education, subject to the approval of the State Department of Education, to establish a virtual school in the State; establishing that a virtual school is a public school subject to applicable laws and regulations; requiring a virtual school to provide specified curricular programs to the students of the virtual school; [...]

01/31/10 — How Online Learning Is Revolutionizing K-12 Education and Benefiting Students

Virtual or online learning is revolutionizing American education.

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