Flex Public Schools, which will open the state’s first hybrid, “bricks and clicks” schools, will be able to sidestep regulations governing non-classroom-based online schools and launch a truly innovative approach to education.

"Last Friday, the State Board of Education, acting on an appeal, unanimously approved Flex Academy San Francisco initially a 275-student high school that will open this fall in downtown San Francisco, with the goal of becoming 850 students in grades 6 to 12. (San Francisco Unified trustees, ignoring recommendations of district staff, had rejected the proposed charter without offering any reason earlier this year.) Last month, the Santa Clara Office of Education granted a county charter for Flex Academy Silicon Valley, which will open a similar school in the fall of 2011."

From "Educated Guess"