While their friends head back to class, the three Frankovich kids will be logging on and learning from the loft in their Spanish Springs home.

Ryan, Justin and Sean are all enrolled in the Nevada Connections Academy. Their home classroom is outfitted with a computer for each, along with text books and other course materials.

Their daily work monitored here by mom, online by their teacher.

Nevada Connections is a charter school without the bricks and mortar building. There’s no traditional classroom experience, but there are frequent phone conversations and periodic field trips and meetings with other students and families.

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The Chapman children attend public school, but not the kind where they take a bus every morning to school and sit among dozens of students throughout the day fighting for the individual attention each needs.

Connor, Rhys and Alexandria Chapman attend Nevada Connections Academy (NCA), a free online charter school, that lets them learn at home at their own pace.

Unlike homeschool, NCA is a K-12 public school that provides all classroom materials, certified teachers and classrooms, although the classrooms are virtual.

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With the public school system juggling budget cuts and overcrowded classrooms, more and more parents are turning to alternative schooling for their children.

“We send them a computer. We send them all the material, textbooks, paper, clay, jump ropes and even safety glasses for science,” says Alison Osmond, elementary teacher for Nevada Connections Academy.

Nevada Connections Academy is a state funded, K-12 virtual school. Unlike most public schools, they aren’t making dramatic cuts.

“We don’t have a lot of the overhead schools have with janitors, transportation and all that kind of stuff,” said Osmond.

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