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Virtual Learning Solutions Withdraws Charter

Illinois State Charter School Commission recommends denying all 18 appeals, including Batavia School District 101.

Virtual Learning Solutions and K12 Inc. won’t be heard around Batavia, at least for a little while.

Virtual Learning Solutions has, for now, withdrawn its charter. The executive director of the Illinois State Charter School Commission, Jeanne Nowaczewsk, said in a release that she recommends, “to adopt staff recommendation to deny the 18 appeals filed by Virtual Learning Solutions … regarding the establishment of the Illinois Virtual Charter School at Fox River Valley.”

Earlier this year, all 18 school districts approached by VLS denied their application. Batavia School District 101 voted against the charter in March.

In May, state Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia stepped in to delay virtual online learning, which established a moratorium on all new charter schools until April 1, 2014, and is another reason Nowaczewsk gave in her nine reasons to deny the appeals.

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