Virtual schools compromise in doubt
MADISON -– A plan to allow students to remain enrolled in online charter schools is in doubt after the governor said he wanted last-minute changes.
The development leaves the future of schools where students learn over the Internet from home in question.
Those schools are facing closure after a state appeals court in December ruled the largest such school was operating in violation of state law.
Lawmakers responded by crafting a bipartisan agreement that would allow the schools to remain open. But Gov. Jim Doyle wants a study of how students are being served in those schools, and he wants to cap enrollment at existing levels in the meantime.
The Democrat-controlled Senate voted 17-16 to accept those changes, but they face uncertainty in the Republican-controlled Assembly.

Feb 19, 2008 at 8:52 p.m.
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