Online High

The state’s largest teacher’s union, Education Minnesota, sued the Department of Education over the Minnesota Virtual Academy, charging that the school relied on parents rather than certified teachers to handle daily instruction.

The suit was dismissed the following year, but doubts about cyberschools lingered. Critics questioned the wisdom of dispensing with face-to-face teacher interaction and faulted online schools with luring students away from traditional public schools already contending with declining enrollment.

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