{"id":14543,"date":"2012-10-31T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=14543"},"modified":"2012-10-30T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T03:46:50","slug":"jacksonville-congresswoman-wants-federal-investigation-of-k12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/31\/jacksonville-congresswoman-wants-federal-investigation-of-k12\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Congresswoman Wants Federal Investigation of K12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14545\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?attachment_id=14545\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14545\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14545\" title=\"10-30 CorrineBrown\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-30-CorrineBrown-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-30-CorrineBrown-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-30-CorrineBrown.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Office of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, a Jacksonville Democrat, has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate K12.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate K12, a publicly traded online education provider that operates in 42 Florida school districts, including in Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough, Orange and Duval counties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/11\/florida-investigates-k12-nations-largest-online-educator\/\">Citing a Sept. 11 story by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and StateImpact Florida<\/a> that reported how K12 may be using improperly certified teachers, Brown sent a letter on Oct. 15 to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asking for the federal inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the seriousness of the allegation and their potentially damaging effects on Florida students enrolled in the program, I respectfully request a federal investigation of this matter,\u201d Brown wrote.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Education\u2019s Office of Inspector General is investigating whether K12 used improperly certified teachers and<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/11\/read-the-documents-that-led-florida-to-investigate-k12-the-nations-largest-online-educator\/\"> asked employees to help cover up the practice<\/a>. However, the state is limiting its investigation to Seminole County, where charges of improperly certified teachers were first reported.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for K12 said the company <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/09\/11\/k12-says-seminole-county-schools-conclusions-about-online-teachers-are-incorrect\/\">follows all state and local laws regarding certified teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the letter below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-page\" data-version=\"2.0\"> <div> Page 1 of <a class=\"DC-embed-resource\" title=\"View entire Rep. Corrine Brown Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education on DocumentCloud in new window or tab\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/492904-20121015165044651-pdf.html#document\/p1\">Rep. Corrine Brown Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education<\/a> <\/div> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;margin:0.5em 0;border:1px solid #ccc;-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;clear:both\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/492904-20121015165044651-pdf\/pages\/1.html?embed=true&amp;maxheight=750&amp;maxwidth=500\" title=\"Page 1 of Rep. 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Corrine Brown Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education on DocumentCloud in new window or tab\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/492904-20121015165044651-pdf.html#document\/p1\">View document<\/a> or <a title=\"Read the text of page 1 of Rep. Corrine Brown Letter to U.S. Dept. of Education on DocumentCloud in new window or tab\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/492904\/pages\/20121015165044651-pdf-p1.txt\">read text<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/embed\/loader\/enhance.js\" async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate K12, a publicly traded online education provider that operates in 42 Florida school districts, including in Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough, Orange and Duval counties. Citing a Sept. 11 story by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting and StateImpact Florida that reported how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":14545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[751,1174,1181,1061,670,1060],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543"}],"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=14543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}