SR: Are virtual schools flunking?

In an editorial this morning, the Spokesman-Review comments:

While Idaho has long been near the bottom of rankings for the percentage of K-12 students who attend college and get a degree, the state has been able to boast a high on-time graduation rate. Until now. Federal measurements put Idaho’s overall graduation rate for 2013-14 at 77.3 percent, or 41st in the nation. The state had boasted an above-average rate of at least 83 percent in recent years using different methodology. … On Monday, State Board of Education President Don Soltman told legislators that the low graduation rates of virtual charter schools and alternative schools had dragged down the state’s average. The graduation rate was 20 percent for online charter schools and 36 percent for alternative schools. More here.