4/28/14 - The Pinckney Board of Education has renewed its virtual learning program for the fall semester. Superintendent Rick Todd tells WHMI Pinckney started contracting with K12 for online courses about three years ago. Through that contract, Pinckneyâs virtual learning program offers courses ranging from math and social studies to music and art for students from Livingston and the contiguous surrounding counties. The district renewed the program on Thursday, and courses will begin alongside traditional classrooms in the fall. Todd says roughly 70 students sign up for the program each year, most from outside the district, and each one provides the school with more than $1,000 in state shared revenue. Although the amount received per student is a fraction of the funding provided for normal in-school students, for the deficit district the extra revenue from the virtual learning program is worth the effort. (TD)
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