Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

Sanders, Stephen N., ed. "Virtual Schools." http://dpi.wi.gov/imt/onlinevir.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Apr. 2010.

Wisconsin legislators have enacted to rules for teachers who are teaching online at virtual schools. They are trying to make effective techers at these schools. Begining in July 2010, teachers have to have 30 hours of professionsl development training in order to teach online. Wisconsin has a virtual online school that is ran by the state. Anybody in the state can enroll to take online courses and are encouraged to do so. Wisconsin has Wisconsin Virtual School which has grades 6 through 12 and Appleton eSchool which has grades 9 through 12. These two schools have already been certified through the state and meet all the critera the goverment has put into place to make sure that these school are effective. They must improve learning through planned instruction, diagnose learning needs, have content delivered through class activities, report to parents, administrators, and be able to evalute the effect of instruction need.

This is up to date and is new for the up coming school year. This is written by the goverment of Wisconsin so it written by someone with expertise. This reflects that there is laws being written to produce effective virtual schools. A "real person" can use this information and is written so that everybody can read it.

My impression is that this has to be done in all state. There has to be rules and laws to enforce these schools to be effective.