{"id":12893,"date":"2012-09-11T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2012-09-11T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T04:05:08","slug":"read-the-documents-that-led-florida-to-investigate-k12-the-nations-largest-online-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/11\/read-the-documents-that-led-florida-to-investigate-k12-the-nations-largest-online-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Documents That Led Florida To Investigate K12, The Nation&#8217;s Largest Online Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12894\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?attachment_id=12894\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12894\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12894\" title=\"9-11 MagnifyingGlass\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/09\/9-11-MagnifyingGlass-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/09\/9-11-MagnifyingGlass-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/09\/9-11-MagnifyingGlass.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">mjtmail \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of emails led Seminole County school officials to question K12&#39;s teachers.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We told you how the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/11\/florida-investigates-k12-nations-largest-online-educator\/\">Florida Department of Education is looking into online education company K12<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether K12 used uncertified teachers for some of its online classes in Seminole County, and if the company asked certified teachers to sign class rosters of students which they did not teach.<\/p>\n<p>K12 says they only use Florida-certified teachers and comply with all state laws. The company says they are cooperating with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/ig\/\">Florida Department of Education Office of Inspector General<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seminole County school officials were tipped off to problems when they were sent an email conversation between a K12 employee and a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>You can read those documents, after the jump:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/426161-scps-k12-virtualschoolinformation.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"SCPS K12 VirtualSchoolInformation (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/426162-scps-k12-virtualschoolinformation-document2.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"SCPS K12 VirtualSchoolInformation Document2 (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We told you how the Florida Department of Education is looking into online education company K12. The question is whether K12 used uncertified teachers for some of its online classes in Seminole County, and if the company asked certified teachers to sign class rosters of students which they did not teach. K12 says they only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1039,678,1181,1061,1182],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}