Our Board of Directors

Ty Babinski, President

Ty Babinski has served on the WCVSF Board since 2013. He has been a learning coach for his children's schooling in an online charter school for 4 years.  Ty works as a youth pastor at his local church.  He has been married to his wife Andrea for 15 years and they and their children live in West Salem.

 

Stephen McManus

Stephen McManus has been on the WCVSF Board since 2013.  Seven of his eight children are either currently enrolled in or previously been enrolled in a public online charter school in Wisconsin.  Steve is an attorney with his own practice.  He and his wife Moira raise their children in Elm Grove.

Rose Fernandez

Rose was the founding president of the Wisconsin Coalition of Virtual School Families.  As a career pediatric trauma nurse and mother, she understands the urgency parents feel when their child is not doing well in school, the challenges of finding a better fit, and the imperative to see children as individuals who may learn differently, but all deserve to be challenged and inspired to do their best.

Rose and her husband, a retired firefighter, are entrepreneur small business owners in Mukwonago.  Her children have learned as homeschool, public, private, charter, and statewide online school students.

 

DARBY MCMANUS

Darby is an alumnus of one of Wisconsin’s oldest virtual schools. She’s a pioneer who has since graduated college and has since begun her career in healthcare delivery. When she was a student more than a decade ago, some lawmakers and special interest groups, as well as the state’s educational regulatory agency, tried to shut her school down. Darby was one of the hundreds of students who pushed back, and helped change state law so that thousands of kids can today learn online.


Virtual Schools in Wisconsin

See the list of Online Charter Schools that operate in Wisconsin