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A rural school turns to digital education. Is it a devil's bargain?

A rural school turns to digital education. Is it a devil’s bargain? (NBC News)

“When you eliminate the school, we’ve seen what happens to these small towns,” a school board member said. “We didn’t want our community to die.”

A case study of a distance ed program in Modoc, Indiana. The report focuses on the Indiana Digital Learning School, which serves students in K through 9th grade. The report shares: Public school advocates are concerned that the district is acting out of a sense of desperation for dollars because consolidation is on the horizon…