Indiana high schoolers would be required to complete at least one virtual course to graduate under a bill currently in the state legislature.

The bill says, school corporations must offer high schoolers three virtual courses from the Core 40 curriculum, the state’s basic requirement for graduation, beginning next year. Schools could either operate their own virtual courses or purchase them from outside vendors.

Gary Democratic Representative Vernon Smith says he understands the need to better prepare students for the online courses they will need to take at the college level but thinks the requirement should come from classes outside the Core 40.

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