Southeastern Greene explores cyber school

MAPLETOWN - Southeastern Greene School District is exploring the possibility of establishing its own cyber school.

Superintendent Bill Henderson told the board Tuesday he hopes to have a representative from a company that helps districts establish the Internet-based education programs attend a special board meeting scheduled for Aug. 12.

A cyber school or "digital academy," Henderson said, could help the district supplement its own programs as well as bring students back to the district.

Last school year, Henderson said, about 29 students in the district attended cyber schools. Being new to the district, Henderson said, he wasn't sure why parents had chosen that option.

A cyber program could be developed using the district's curriculum, he said. It also could be arranged so that students in the cyber program on occasion could come into the schools.

The cyber classes would not be taught by district teachers but by instructors who would be state accredited, he said.

Other school districts also are now looking into starting such programs. Frazier School District currently operates a digital academy, Henderson said.