s we begin the third year of the Virtual High School, the level of interest and excitement VHS has created in teachers, principals, superintendents, and other high school administra- tors keeps growing.

In Year One, we trained 32 teachers from 27 high schools and one college. In Year Two, those teachers went on to teach over 500 VHS students, while we were simultaneously training 13 additional teachers. Five of these trainees were teachers from founding schools, seven were teachers from new schools, and one was from a local college.

This past spring, a Year Three recruitment effort brought an overwhelming response. Regional representatives from Massachusetts and Ohio held workshops to generate interest within their states and a Texas Site Coordinator held workshops and attended meetings to promote VHS in the Lone Star State. In the meantime, VHS national office staff attended conferences, mailed out informational packets and answered inquiries.

As a result, we received over 80 applications from around the country. Sixty teachers from 50 new schools were accepted and began training this fall. The majority of new schools are from Massachusetts and Ohio. The rest come from California, Colorado, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.

Although we are no longer accepting applications for the 1999-2000 academic year, if you are interested in joining the Virtual High School for the 2000-2001 year, please visit our web site.

Carla Melucci is Project Coordinator for the Virtual High School.

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