Though classes started Monday in the Marana Unified School District, there are some district students who may never set foot in a Marana school. And they can still get an MUSD high school diploma.
The district has formed a partnership with Mesa Public Schools for Marana students to enroll in the Mesa Distance Learning Program to take a full load of kindergarten through 12th-grade coursework online.
It costs nothing for the students who take the classes, and Marana gets per-pupil state funding for the enrolled students. MUSD, which administers quarterly and final exams to its distance-learning students, pays some of the money to Mesa Public Schools, which provides the curriculum and instructors for the classes.
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