Charter schools are often thought of as a brick and mortar building like a traditional school building. Currently there are 62 charter schools.

Most are located in the areas of Indianapolis, South Bend, Fort Wayne and Gary. Typically, you don’t find a brick-and-mortar charter school in sparsely populated areas.

During this school year there are also two pilot virtual schools operating in Indiana.org for more info.

Students’ entire educational program is done on the Internet from their home. They never have to visit a building. For this year Indiana authorized the creation of only two virtual charter schools with a total maximum enrollment of 500.

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House Bill 1002 is about charter schools. Included in its provisions are virtual charter schools, the subject of this commentary.

Charter schools are often thought of as a brick and mortar building like a traditional school building. Currently there are 62 of these charter schools. Most of these are located in the areas of Indianapolis, South Bend, Fort Wayne and Gary. Typically you don’t find a brick and mortar charter school in rural and sparsely populated areas.

For the rest of the article, go to Bill could bring virtual charter schools to rural areas