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Byline: TARA BURGHART
A growing number of Colorado school superintendents are devising strategies to soften the blow of losing students to online schools.
"If I lose two kids, that's $20,000 walking out the door," said Dave Grosche, superintendent of the Edison 54JT School District.
During the 2000-01 school year, the state spent nearly $1.1 million to educate 166 full-time cyberschool students, according to the Colorado Department of Education. This year, the state projects spending $23.9 million to educate 4,237 students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
The figures make school officials nervous because losing…
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