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Dougco to the rescue: District an ideal home for Hope's large online program
Editorial, September 24, 2007
Earlier this month, we reported some positive signs that the Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op might move beyond its checkered past and become a model of online education for Colorado students.
More recently, we met with officials from the Douglas County School District, where Hope will apply to move its charter, and the Douglas County Federation of Teachers. And we're even more confident that the school - which enrolls more than half of the state's online students - will have the chance to succeed.
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Some hope for online school
By The Denver Post editorial board, September 21, 2007
Hope Online, Colorado's largest and perhaps most controversial Internet-based school, has learned some hard lessons.
Just last month, the school was ordered to repay the state $2.8 million for shoddy accounting and improper spending, and the small district, Vilas, that chartered it must pay $470,000.
But with the legislature approving Senate Bill 215 last spring to provide some oversight of online education, there is some, well, hope that Hope will emerge as a more efficient and effective model for how online schools can educate students who would otherwise drop out of traditional schools.
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Cleaning up online education's act
Editorial, September 1, 2007
The Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op has taken plenty of shots from a variety of critics, including this paper, during its brief, two-year lifetime. But the charter school's attempts to turn its fortunes around have important implications for education in this state: first, because online studies are only going to expand, and also because Hope is the biggest player in the online arena in Colorado.
Perhaps Hope, which this year expects to have nearly 4,000 students enrolled in 70 learning centers statewide, can finally get on the good side of its adversaries. Its leaders certainly seem eager to improve both the transparency of its operations and its credibility as an institution of learning.
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Online school. district must pay
By Jennifer Brown and Allison Sherry, August 28, 2007
An online school stung by two audits must repay the state $2.8 million for shoddy accounting and collecting taxpayer money for students who were attending private religious schools.
The tiny southeastern Colorado school district of Vilas, which chartered Hope Co-Op Online Learning Academy, must reimburse the state an additional $470,000, the Colorado Department of Education said Monday.
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Charter to repay $3million
By Nancy Mitchell, August 28, 2007
A charter school will repay the state nearly $3 million for errors in tracking students, under an agreement announced Monday by the Colorado Department of Education.
Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op, which serves 3,500 students in 70 learning centers across the state, also has agreed to pay a monitor for at least one year to review its operations.
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Cyberschools post gains but still trail state
By Karen Rouse, August 3, 2007
Many of the state's online schools celebrated students' gains - from the incremental to the impressive - on the 2007 CSAP.
Still, data show that in many of the cyberschools, the percentage of students scoring either "proficient" or "advanced" on the three tests continues to lag behind the state.
At Hope Co-Op Online Learning Academy, the state's largest online school, with more than 3,000 students, for example, fourth-, ninth- and 10th-graders saw gains in reading, math and writing on the 2007 CSAP.
Tenth-graders at the fledgling online school saw the sharpest gains in reading, going from just 20 percent proficient on the 2006 CSAP to 34 percent proficient this year.
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