10.5 Million Students to Learn Online by 2014

According to this article in The Journal  10.5 million PreK - 12 students will attend school online by the year 2014. Below is a graph from the article:

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I believe costs will be one of the driving influences on the push to move more of education to an online environment. Here in NJ local taxes pay the lion's share of the school bill. Homeowners are not going to be able to continue to pay the large property tax bills and schools are going to have to find a way to reduce costs. Using online learning is one way to reduce some costs. More and more schools are going to have to give a serious look into online learning as a cost savings measure.