{"id":18505,"date":"2013-05-13T10:33:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=18505"},"modified":"2013-05-13T11:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:06:44","slug":"recording-k12-managers-admit-difficulties-hiring-certified-teachers-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/13\/recording-k12-managers-admit-difficulties-hiring-certified-teachers-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Recording: K12 Managers Admit Difficulties Hiring Certified Teachers In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18508\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/13\/recording-k12-managers-admit-difficulties-hiring-certified-teachers-in-florida\/5-13-computerlabstudent\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18508\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18508\" title=\"5-13 ComputerLabStudent\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-13-ComputerLabStudent-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-13-ComputerLabStudent-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/05\/5-13-ComputerLabStudent.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kentucky Country Day \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 2009 recording shows online educator K12 had difficulty hiring properly certified teachers in Florida. A draft state investigation found no evidence the company used teachers who were not Florida-certified, but used three teachers who were not subject certified.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2009, managers at online education company K12 <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/12\/internal-recording-reveals-k12-inc-struggled-to-comply-with-florida-law\/\">were having a tough time hiring Florida teachers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>State law requires teachers are certified in their subject area and by the state.<\/p>\n<p>So when a K12 teacher saw her name listed on company documents as teaching Florida classes she had not taught, she asked her managers about it.<\/p>\n<p>During a November 2009 conference call, the managers called it a mistake they were fixing. The recording was provided by a source and none of the participants were in states which require permission to record a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Allison Cleveland, K12\u2019s vice president of school management and services, tried to assuage concerns that teacher certifications were used without that teacher&#8217;s knowledge.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWell I think the important thing about Florida \u2013 you are not actually teaching in Florida,&#8221; she said on the tape. &#8220;You have not had any contact with students in Florida. I mean your name being on that list was nothing but a mistake. And, it took us a couple of days to get to the bottom of that\u2026you know, and I feel like we\u2019ve been able to resolve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story by StateImpact Florida reporter John O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/05\/13\/listen-to-k12-managers-explain-florida-teacher-hiring-issues\/\">listen to the whole conversation here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, managers at online education company K12 were having a tough time hiring Florida teachers. State law requires teachers are certified in their subject area and by the state. So when a K12 teacher saw her name listed on company documents as teaching Florida classes she had not taught, she asked her managers about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1181,798,1182],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505"}],"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=18505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}