Ash Blakely, 13, right, attends an enrollment information meeting at one•n•ten discussing the opening of the Queer Blended Learning Center in partnership with Spark Community Schools in Phoenix on July 18, 2023.
LGBTQ+ youth "tend to be shy" and "don't want to become targets," said Clayton Davenport, one∙n∙ten's director of development and marketing. McIntosh will be instructing a mixed-age classroom that could grow to 10 to 12 students. Families will be able to pay for the whole cost of tuition through Arizona’s school voucher program, which was expanded last year to allow all school-age children in Arizona to receive public funding for private school tuition, home school supplies and other educational resources.
Reading, writing, math and science lessons will be delivered to students in the classroom through an online homeschool program called Time4Learning. Each student's instructional level will be determined through an individual assessment, Baquedano said.