Dabbling ducks eat plants, seeds, grasses and other small insects and animals that they find on or under the water. Ducks which have broad beaks, (shovelers) sift their food for insects, snails and seeds from the mud.
According to a new report from the National Education Policy Center, which operates out of U Colorado Boulder's School of Education, there were 338 full-time virtual schools operating as part of a public education system in 30 states in the 2012-2013 academic year. That's up from 311 the previous year.
Forty-four percent of those virtual schools are being operated by private education management organizations, or EMOs (up three percentage points from the previous year), and those EMOs accounted for 72 percent of all enrolled students in 2012-2013 (up five percentage points from the previous year).