VirtualEDU.org Offers Online High School & Middle School Classes for Under $50 a Month

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, March 10, 2011 (Press-News.org) "VirtualEDU announced today that it will begin providing all of their 200 fully accredited high school online classes to students for a subscription price of just $49.95 per month. With critical funding shortfalls in all in states, we are concerned that rapidly increasing class sizes will severely reduce student learning," stated Executive Director Dana Delane. "We are offering a class size of one through the individualized instruction that can occur through online learning to school districts, charter schools, independent schools and parents who want to see their students succeed."

Blended learning, where students take both online and live classes, and online learning have dramatically increased in the past few years as more and more schools provide online classes for credit recovery, summer school and to offer subjects where there is no available on-site teacher. The Los Angeles Times reported that LA Unified school district has gone from just 300 students using online credit recovery last year to over 2,500 this year. According to Clayton Christensen, author of Disrupting Class, "In the year 2000, roughly 45,000 K-12 students took an online course. In 2009, more than 3 million K-12 students did."

VirtualEDU.org is the first fully accredited online school to offer a subscription based model for online learning in grades 6 through 12. Most virtual schools require a significant up-front investment when a student enrolls in a course. In the subscription model, students can take an unlimited number of courses for a low monthly fee. This makes online learning affordable to a much larger segment of the population.

VirtualEDU.org is also offering customized, turnkey virtual schools to school district, charter school and private school leaders as a way to use blended learning in their organizations without having to find the money to invest in building online courses and delivery systems. This is a new and unique way for school districts to cut costs while still ensuring that every child has access to the classes they need. The schools can also create their own online school by customizing the VirtualEDU courses to meet their needs.

In the initial pilot of the subscription based online classes, VirtualEDU.org has had over 500 students enroll in just two months. "The response has been tremendous! This clearly demonstrates that cost prevented many students from studying online," stated Dave Saba, long-time virtual education advocate and new CEO of VirtualEDU. "We are so happy to see so many students finally able to access the high quality individualized instruction they need to succeed in school."

About VirtualEDU, Inc
VirtualEDU Inc is powered by American High School which is an online secondary school for students 6-12. Virtual EDU classes are fully accredited by AdvancED, a recognized U.S. Department of Education Accrediting Agency, and delivered through a start-of-the-art online learning management system. VirtualEDU is a highly successful minority-owned, woman-owned business founded in 2004 to deliver the highest quality online secondary school content at the most affordable rates. Online K-12 enrollments in the U.S. are growing at rates far in excess of the total student population, with no signs of slowing, according to a recent national report by iNACOL. For more information or to enroll, visit www.VirtualEDU.org or call 1-877-327-5707. Those wishing to start their own virtual school should visit www.virtualedu.org/Start-a-Virtual-School.