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Factors Influencing Parent Decisions: Student Transfers from Public to Cyber Charter Schools in Pennsylvania
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Esche, Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify decision-making factors from parents of Southeast Rural School District (SRSD) who chose to transfer their children to one of 14 cyber charter schools within Pennsylvania amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This research study utilized a phenomenological design, consisting of qualitative electronic…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Transfer Students
The Factors That Affect the Successful Completion Rate of High School Students in a Virtual School Environment
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Audrey Wade Harris – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Schools are now filled with Digital Natives. There has been a vast growth in online courses offered at the high school level but little evidence as to how effective they are. It is important to understand and evaluate the effectiveness of a digital learning environment in order to keep up with the 21st century changes occurring in education using…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Achievement, High Schools, Virtual Schools
Why Parents of Student with Disabilities Enrolled Their Child in an Online Virtual Charter School: Using Extant Data
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Schultz, Andrew J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School choice is a long-standing tradition in the United States. New to the options available to K-12 parents are full-time virtual schools, and this option is an even more recent development for parents of students with disabilities. Very little research exists on why parents are choosing full-time virtual education for their school-aged…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Students with Disabilities, Virtual Schools, Charter Schools