Virtual schools take root in S.C.

South Carolina is at the forefront of an important public-school reform: Web-based schooling. Three online charter schools - called virtual schools or cyber schools - not only filled up for their first year of classes last fall but garnered waiting lists.

Provost, one of the new virtual charter schools planned for August, will be a high school with a math and science emphasis, according to Timothy Daniels, superintendent of the S.C. Public Charter School District. Calvert, the other virtual charter school opening in August, offers a well-established curriculum often used by home-schooled students, said Daniels

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