The types of schools that will be represented at the expo include preschools, private K-12 and high schools, colleges and universities, charter schools, alternative schools, vocational schools, and online education and virtual schools. Financial institutions will also be present at the expo.

“The subject of education is highly valued at 7NEWS and we are excited to offer families the opportunity to explore Colorado educational options,” said Byron Grandy, general manager, vice president of KMGH-TV- Azteca America Colorado.

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Across the state a growing number of students are migrating to online schooling options, and a host of virtual schools are popping up to meet that demand. The Southwest Colorado e-school will be the first one that is based locally.

The school is overseen by the San Juan Board of Cooperative Services, which provides student support services for the nine school districts in Southwest Colorado. The e-school is an option for any student in the BOCES school districts.

That means that administrators and eventually teachers will be close at hand if students need face-to-face assistance, an option that usually isn’t available through statewide online schools, Schmitt said.

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Seventeen million pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students in the U.S. will get at least some of their education virtually by 2015, according to new research from Ambient Insight. More than four million of these students will get their entire educations virtually, from full-time virtual schools.

While each family has its own reasons for choosing full-time virtual schools, the most common motive is the ability for a student to work at his own pace and level, regardless of what other students are doing. The proliferation and proven success of virtual schools like Connections Academy have also fueled the e-learning education boom.

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Across the state a growing number of students are migrating to online schooling options, and a host of virtual schools are popping up to meet that demand. The Southwest Colorado e-school will be the first one that is based locally.

The school is overseen by the San Juan Board of Cooperative Services, which provides student support services for the nine school districts in Southwest Colorado. The e-school is an option for any student in the BOCES school districts.

That means that administrators and eventually teachers will be close at hand if students need face-to-face assistance, an option that usually isn’t available through statewide online schools, Schmitt said.

This year, the school contracted teachers and curriculum through Jefferson County School District’s 21st Century Virtual Academy, but plans to hire local teachers next year, Schmitt said.

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In its latest ranking in 2010, Pennsylvania was 12th out of 41 states.

Minnesota, home to the first charter schools, ranked first. Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado and New York rounded out the top five. Nine states don’t have any charter school laws.

“In general, Pennsylvania law provides an environment that’s open to new start-ups, public school conversions, and virtual schools and supportive of autonomy,” according to the report. But the report said the legislation could improve in several ways: by prohibiting caps on growth, increasing the accountability for the authorizer, allowing more entities besides school boards to approve charter schools and allowing the same organizations to start multiple charter schools.

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