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Updated March 21, 2020
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The extent to which online learning graduation requirements have had an impact on the adoption of online or blended learning is unclear. Some states (e.g., Michigan) allow students to have an online learning “experience” in place of a fully-online course. Other states have little or no enforcement of the online learning requirement provisions. Michigan, Florida, and Alabama have certainly been among the states with the most K-12 online and blended learning activity overall, but it is unclear how much of that activity would have occurred in the absence of the online learning graduation requirement, as those states have funded state virtual schools and supported online and blended learning in other ways as well.
In addition, some schools and districts have created online learning requirements. These include Kiel High School (WI); Kenosha School District in Wisconsin (beginning with class of 2016); Lead-Deadwood (SD)High School (beginning with the class of 2014); and Marietta City Schools in Georgia (beginning with the class of 2016). Putnam County Schools in Tennessee requires an online Personal Finance Course for all graduates from SY 2013–14, and Sugar Salem High School (ID) requires one online class of all students, and guides students toward classes offered by the state virtual school, Idaho Digital Learning.