Per AJC Friday July 10, 2009 B5 ” Odyssey School’s Charter Renewed”:
- School: K-8 charter school Odyssey School of Coweta County; its cyber partner: Georgia Virtual Academy(GVA)
- It offers online public education for kids from 163 GA districts
- 44% of GVA’s inaugural classes were composed of home schoolers
- Odyssey receives about $3,100 per pupil as a state-chartered school
- As a Georgia Charter Schools Commission-chartered school, it also would qualify for matching local funds carved from state allocations paid to the 163 districts the school draws from
- It opened on a Coweta campus in 2004, will move to become a commision school next so it can expand its offerings.
- Meanwhile, the school will receive federal funds for the first time this fall. The state board agreed to grant it more than 572,000 for the education of the the poor. about half of the school’s enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
- GVA will have a total of 100 instructots working from their homes in August.
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