How Will Your School Meet the Online Requirement?

Dear Michigan Secondary Principals:

As you are aware, Michigan became the first state to require students to have an online experience prior to High School graduation. Specifically, “380.1278a Requirements for high school diploma” states:

(b) Meets the online course or learning experience requirement of this subsection. A school district or public school academy shall provide the basic level of technology and internet access required by the state board to complete the online course or learning experience. For a pupil to meet this requirement, the pupil shall meet either of the following, as determined by the school district or public school academy:
(i) Has successfully completed at least 1 course or learning experience that is presented online, as defined by the department.
(ii) The pupil's school district or public school academy has integrated an online experience throughout the high school curriculum by ensuring that each teacher of each course that provides the required credits of the Michigan merit curriculum has integrated an online experience into the course.

The Michigan Virtual School is committed to working in partnership with Michigan schools to support this innovative education policy reform strategy. We have created a brief survey to determine how Michigan secondary schools are planning to meet this requirement. Your participation in this survey will help us plan accordingly for future support to Michigan schools. It is a short 14 question survey that should take no more than 8-15 minutes of your time. A final report will be made available to you upon your request and to the general public; however, no identifying information will be included in a public report.

The survey can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=n3rvhyOGvNSJBmITAZ0iag_3d_3d

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

Robert Currie
Executive Director
Michigan Virtual School

Scott Vashaw
Associate Director
Michigan Virtual School