Nevada Connections Academy (NCA), a nationally-accredited online school, will hold an information session on Thursday, May 17, at 4:30 p.m. at the Dayton Valley Branch Library for families who are currently enrolled or who would like more information about the school.

The information sessions also allow interested families to meet with NCA’s certified teachers and parents with children currently enrolled in the school.

Local information sessions offer parents the opportunity to learn about the skilled teachers and interactive curriculum offered through the NCA program. Session participants will explore NCA’s individualized learning approach, its curriculum, the technology-enhanced learning environment, and the enrollment process. Curriculum samples also will be available, and those attending will have the opportunity to get answers to any questions they may have.

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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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