Arizona E-Learning Advocates Press to Keep Initiative’s Momentum

Backers of “e-learning” in Arizona are trying to maintain their state government’s momentum in helping provide digital curricula to schools across the state, even as the state’s economic headwinds stiffen.

Arizona’s e-learning task force and a digital-curriculum pilot project for middle schools stem from an initiative approved by the legislature in 2005 that centered on developing and eventually expanding the use of digitally delivered curricula for Arizona schools and colleges.

The initiative is seen as an engine for business development, workforce improvement, and research in a state that is home to several nationally prominent...