ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - More Georgia families are using state-funded Promise Scholarships to move away from traditional classrooms, and a Griffin school is among the first to build a fully virtual option for Georgia students.

New Horizons New Directions Preparatory Academy, a private school headquartered in Griffin, has partnered with K-12 Private Academy — a national online provider — to offer tuition-free virtual instruction for kindergarten through eighth-grade students statewide.

Under the partnership, students log in from home for daily lessons. All instructional materials and live classes are covered by the Georgia Promise Scholarship, which provides up to $6,500 per student for those zoned to the state’s lowest-performing public schools.

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