K12 Virtual School GuiDe for Parents

A Parent's Guide to Choosing the Right Online Program

K-12 online learning is growing at 30% annually. Thirty-four states have state-led virtual school programs, eighteen states offer full-time online learning programs, while 70% of school districts offer at least one online course to students.

National Standards for Quality Online Programs .
This publication is designed to provide states, districts, online programs, accreditation agencies and other organizations with a set of over-arching quality guidelines for online programs in several categories: leadership, instruction, content, support services and evaluation.

National Standards for Quality Online Teaching
A publication designed to provide states, districts, online programs, and other organizations with a set of quality guidelines for online teaching in February 2008.

National Standards of Quality for Online Courses
The standards selected are based on the results of a research review and survey of online course quality criteria. These quality standards were evaluated and assembled into an easy to use document for evaluating online courses with common benchmarks.