The Ohio Virtual Academy (OHVA) is one of many virtual charter schools that is powered by the curriculum provider
Stride Inc. The academy, like most Stride-supplied schools, provides the student with textbooks, materials, and a loaned computer, so the student can access their online lessons.
Curriculum
The course lessons and lessons are on the K12 Online School (OLS) here parents are allowed to customize their student's school calendar and add/remove course lessons from the daily plan and add/remove vacation days. However the student must have completed each core course (
Math
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
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English,
Science, and
Social Studies) to 90% or higher by the first Friday of June and have had at least 920 hours logged. Course lessons include online reading followed by offline textbook work and then the lesson test, also called an assessment. The test consists of an online multiple choice quiz and/or a textbook quiz that has multiple choice and/or short answer. The offline textbook multiple choice and/or short answer questions are answered by the student, the answers are then graded with the teacher guide answer key book by the parent who enters the results into the online test. The online questions are then graded by the computer and the test grade is then displayed. At the end of the school day the parent records attendance on the OLS of what courses their student worked on that day and how much time they spent.
Notable alumni
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Leelah Alcorn, transgender girl who committed suicide in 2014
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Anthony De La Torre
Anthony De La Torre (born November 24, 1993) is an American actor, singer, songwriter and guitarist, known for his roles as young Jack Sparrow in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (2017) and Jan Axel Blomberg in '' Lords of Ch ...
, actor and singer
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Isabela Merced, actress and singer
Criticism
Criticisms have been levelled against this schooling approach due to poor test scores.
See also
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K12 Inc.
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Wisconsin Virtual Academy
References
Sources
Lawriter - ORC - 3314.041 Distributing statement concerning state-prescribed testing and compulsory attendance law to parents.
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Online schools in the United States
Public high schools in Ohio
Public middle schools in Ohio
Public elementary schools in Ohio
Charter schools in Ohio
Online K–12 schools