{"id":5885,"date":"2012-03-23T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:23:20","slug":"florida-virtual-school-nations-top-online-course-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/23\/florida-virtual-school-nations-top-online-course-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Virtual School Nation&#8217;s Top Online Course Provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5886\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Florida Virtual School remains the nation's largest online education provider.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5886\" title=\"Laptop\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop-138x103.jpg 138w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/Laptop.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">utnapistim \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florida Virtual School remains the nation&#39;s largest online education provider.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flvs.net\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Florida Virtual School<\/a> remains the largest provider\u00a0 of online courses in the country, according to a new report from <a href=\"http:\/\/kpk12.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/KeepingPace2011.pdf\">Evergreen Education Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Students enrolled in nearly 260,000 courses through the school in the 2010-2011 school year.<\/p>\n<p>Florida trails other states in the number of students enrolled full-time in online programs, but a recently approved bill that expands full-time enrollment could raise those numbers. In addition, 56 school districts operate online programs offering full-time and part-time instruction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Florida Virtual School will begin offering diplomas in the 2012-2013 school year. Last year, lawmakers required students take at least one online course in order to graduate.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/ohio\/\">StateImpact Ohio<\/a> for bringing the report to our attention. Read the whole report <a href=\"http:\/\/kpk12.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/KeepingPace2011.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Virtual School remains the largest provider\u00a0 of online courses in the country, according to a new report from Evergreen Education Group. Students enrolled in nearly 260,000 courses through the school in the 2010-2011 school year. Florida trails other states in the number of students enrolled full-time in online programs, but a recently approved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":5886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1125,1061],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885"}],"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=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5888,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions\/5888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}