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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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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“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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Quattrini, 16, was diagnosed with cancer three years ago. After being in remission for a few months, the cancer reappeared. She has been in remission for the second time for about a year.

During her time in the hospital, she received tutoring for weeks at a time while out of school.

She still comes to the classroom in the afternoons for tutoring and often will stay to help tutor younger kids if she can.

The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation and the Torino Foundation hosted the second annual C.A.P.S. Ceremony May 14 at A-Tech to honor about 50 students in the program and the teachers, tutors and donors who helped them.

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The session will allow interested families to meet NCA’s teachers, parents and current students.

NCA is a virtual public charter school that serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Seth Coleman, communications director for the Georgia Charter Schools Association, said the Georgia Charter Schools Commission voted Thursday to allow separate charters for Odyssey and GCA. The commission also reduced the fee it charges state charter schools by one third.

Odyssey was the first school to receive a charter from the Georgia Board of Education in 2001. The Georgia BOE action followed rejection of charter plans by the Coweta County Board of Education.

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The public virtual school model is offering quality educations to thousands of students throughout the state.

Students enrolled in virtual public schools attend school from their home or wherever an Internet connection is available, work with state-licensed teachers and are held to the same accountability standards as students in traditional brick-and-mortar public schools.

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First, more families than ever have embraced virtual education in general: Some 2 million American K-12 students now get some or all of their education virtually, according to research firm Ambient Insight. Second, the format of virtual schools eases a student’s adjustment period – and physical transitions for both student and family. Finally, family finances sometimes come into play. Virtual public schools – like all public schools – are tuition free and virtual private schools like National Connections Academy cost a fraction of traditional “bricks and mortar” private schools. Yet they deliver the academic rigor and highly personalized educations that are hallmarks of independent schools. So families with children enrolled in traditional private schools who are struggling to meet hefty tuition obligations often find they can save significant money and still get an independent school-caliber education.

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