Is Global SchoolONE a homeschool co-op or an educational institution?
Answer: "Yes!"
We are in fact both! Our Family Enterprise learning stack is one in which parents teach their children and other parents' children, so it is a homeschool co-op. AND, these parents are qualified teachers, so that when they teach other parents' children, it is remote learning from an institutional school. This innovative structure has led to some problems with regulators understanding how to classify us, but we are working this out.
Further our programs like the DigiTools Diploma learning stack are clearly institutional education, although most of it classified as "correspondence" education.
Why is Global SchoolONE not found in the PSS Private School Locator?
Answer: Because regulators had difficulty in categorizing us, due to our innovative nature.
While Global SchoolONE has NCES ID A2300227, we currently are not publicly listed in the PSS Private School Locator because when we filled out the federal Private School Universe Survey (PSS), the nature of our school was not properly classified as being "in-scope". This is due to the fact that a question on the PSS asks "Is a major role of this school or program to support homeschooling?" [1] And due to our answer of "Yes" and some other answers, we got classified as only a homeschool co-op, when in fact we are both a homeschool co-op and institutional school.
But while we currently do not have an entry in the national private school locator, we can be found in California's private school locator and have a California CDS Code of 31668946157374 and is why we have the domain SchoolONE.k12.ca.us.
What is Global SchoolONE's Accreditation Status
Whereas postsecondary higher education nearly always requires accreditation for legitimacy, private K12 schools often only have state recognition. We believe that accreditation is valuable and are pursuing it with the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (DEAC). While there is never a guarantee that an institution will achieve accreditation, we have expertise in accreditation, with our founder, Jacob Walker, having led several accrediting visiting committees to secondary and postsecondary schools as well as being asked by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Accrediting Commission for Schools, (WASC ACS) to be on their advisory committee when they updated their postsecondary protocol, and he contributed a conference paper to that committee. Thus, we are confident, that we will achieve accreditation as quickly as is possible, given DEAC's time requirements.
