Dispute over cyber charter schools

AS five-year-old Arabella squirmed in a spare bedroom adorned with watercolours, her mother read aloud from a computer screen the tale of two benevolent dragons.  

The kindergartener was learning in what to all appearances was a home-school setting. But while mommy is her teacher and classes are held in their Laguna Hills, California, condo, public funds paid for the computer and the half-dozen boxes of drawing paper, workbooks and paint delivered at the start of the school year – “everything but yarn,'' said Arabella's mother, Brenda Golestan-Parast.