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- The State Board of Education criticized the Georgia Cyber Academy (GCA), the state's first online charter school, for failing to improve the assessment and instruction of its special education students.
- The number of special needs students at the GCA has risen from 600 to 1,100 in the past two years.
- The State Board of Education rebuked the GCA's administrators for ignoring previous warnings and threatened to withhold funding from the school.
From the article:
"State Board of Education members blasted Georgia Cyber Academy officials Tuesday, saying the online school is failing to meet the needs of its special education students.
GCA, Georgia’s first statewide online school, has seen its student population explode in recent years. Its number of special needs students has risen to 1,100 from 600 two years ago, according to the head of the school, Matt Arkin. ..."
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