Expanding virtual learning opportunities is a critically important step for New Mexico. Virtual schooling was a critical component of the “Florida Model” for education reform, which helped transform achievement across student subgroups there from nearly worst to first within a decade.
In the state Capitol, bills hostile to charter schools, which are deregulated public schools independent of school districts, have snaked their way through the Legislature. If they reach Jerry Brown's desk, it will be interesting to see what the governor decides to do, since he founded a successful charter school, the Oakland Military Institute (OMI).
