{"id":33417,"date":"2020-10-22T05:02:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=33417"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T19:42:11","slug":"epic-virtual-charter-schools-cloudy-future-throws-unwitting-families-into-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2020\/10\/22\/epic-virtual-charter-schools-cloudy-future-throws-unwitting-families-into-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Virtual Charter Schools\u2019 cloudy future leaves families searching for clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33418\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 504px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33418\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-504x672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-504x672.jpg 504w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-620x827.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-840x1120.jpg 840w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-687x916.jpg 687w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-414x552.jpg 414w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/IMG_0172-354x472.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Courtesy Christina Glenn<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christina and Brendan Glenn. Brendan is a senior student at Epic Virtual Charter Schools and his mom says despite negative headlines, the school has helped him academically.<\/p>\n<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christina Glenn knows her son\u2019s success is due to Epic Virtual Charter Schools.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brendan Glenn had been struggling in high school before transferring to Epic halfway through 9th grade. And now, the senior is on track to graduate.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey\u2019ve done a fantastic job,\u201d Christina Glenn said in a telephone interview from her Stillwater home. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve helped him become successful. Working his own pace, his grades have gone from barely making it to he\u2019s now making all As and Bs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-radius: 10px; overflow:hidden;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 170px;\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/5abdce10-8ea5-48e3-ac4b-31b266dac574\"><\/iframe><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent days following the release of a state audit report:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The school was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2020\/10\/12\/state-board-of-education-demands-epic-virtual-charter-schools-return-11-2-million\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fined $11.2 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the State Board of Education.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter appointed special counsel Melissa McLawhorn Houston to review the auditor\u2019s report and make determinations about criminal charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2020\/10\/13\/epic-virtual-charter-schools-oversight-board-votes-to-begin-contract-termination-process\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">begin the termination process<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of Epic\u2019s contract with the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this leaves families like the Glenns puzzled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Their main conduit to the school is Pat Walker, Brendan\u2019s Bartlesville-based teacher. And she\u2019s tremendously helpful, answering emails and texts at almost any hour and offering in person tutoring time in Bartlesville, where the Glenns lived when Brendan started at Epic.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, they\u2019re just pressing on.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Harrington, the chairman of the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board says families like the Glenns are doing exactly what they need to do.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDespite this present difficulty, your school is still in session, your homework assignments are still due and your tests still need to be graded,\u201d Harrington said Tuesday while addressing Epic families and teachers. \u201cThat is not changing today.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it\u2019s unlikely to change this school year. Because of the length of the termination process, Epic will have multiple chances to defend itself over the coming months, it won\u2019t close its doors in the middle of the spring 2021 semester either.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But changes are coming. Epic proponents say they\u2019re the result of a politically motivated witch hunt while opponents say it\u2019s change that\u2019s long overdue.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32326\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 672px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32326\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-672x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-672x504.jpg 672w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-632x474.jpg 632w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad-536x402.jpg 536w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/01\/Epic-ad.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Quinton Chandler \/ StateImpact<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Epic advertisement at an Oklahoma City mall. The school has been criticized for its aggressive advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>A checkered past<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turmoil has swirled around the school for years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The virtual charter\u2019s first sponsor, the University of Central Oklahoma pulled out and eventually <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoman.com\/article\/3544996\/university-of-central-oklahoma-pays-60k-to-exit-charter-deal\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">paid a $60,000 settlement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to end its association with the school in 2011. The district <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoman.com\/article\/3915037\/online-charter-school-in-oklahoma-files-lawsuit-over-a-f-report-card\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sued the State Department of Education<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for not releasing its school district report card at the same time as others in 2013. And it\u2019s been the subject of an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation criminal probe<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahomawatch.org\/2016\/07\/14\/after-two-years-activity-resumes-in-epic-charter-schools-probe\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> starting in 2013<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that included a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oklahoman.com\/article\/5636463\/stitt-requests-osbi-briefing-on-epic-ghost-students-investigation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">warrant filed last year<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> alleging its founders pocketed $10 million in state funds.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The controversy has drawn in critics from every level of state government and in 2019, Gov. Kevin Stitt called on State Auditor Cindy Byrd to perform an investigative audit on the district.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audit alleges a laundry list of violations.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI have seen a lot of fraud in my 23 years,\u201d Byrd said. \u201cAnd this situation is deeply concerning.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her report said Epic was given almost half a billion dollars over the last five years. And of that, at least $125 million has been siphoned through a learning fund that goes to families and a for-profit management company operated by Epic&#8217;s founders Ben Harris and David Chaney.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because there\u2019s no oversight of that money, it\u2019s unknown if that money actually went toward educating kids, Byrd said. And that\u2019s a big problem.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those records remain tied up in litigation as Epic says they should remain private. But Byrd continues to fight for a full accounting of those dollars in court.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audit report concludes that Oklahoma should consider that for-profit organizations running charter schools might not be a good idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33420\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 672px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33420\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-672x377.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-672x377.png 672w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-1920x1080.png 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.09.13-AM-620x348.png 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Screen capture, Epic Virtual Charter School video<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Harris touted Epic Virtual Charter Schools in a 2020 promotional video.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>Becoming a virtual charter giant<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic Virtual Charter Schools is the largest school district in the state with more than 60,000 students &#8211; almost double Oklahoma City and Tulsa Public Schools combined.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of that surge has been generated by an influx of students who wanted to move to a distance learning option because of the coronavirus pandemic. In a July <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/news\/local\/education\/epic-co-founder-claims-innocence-in-new-video-address-amid-back-to-school-student-recruiting\/article_4d3a7727-21ea-5c22-958f-ab60c2164485.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-founder Ben Harris touted the school\u2019s ability to educate kids, even under intense scrutiny from outside forces. And he said that\u2019s why families were flocking in despite headlines garnered by the school.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSome of those families coming to us may be skeptical of sending their children to us because of the negative and unfair and often flatout inaccurate news about us the past few years,\u201d Harris said.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic was already on pace to outgrow other school districts. It had consistently been increasing in popularity and size for years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The growth had to do with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tulsaworld.com\/news\/epic-charter-schools-promoting-itself-with-multimillion-dollar-advertising-campaign-plus-9-000-per-month\/article_b1e4532b-277e-591f-bdb6-ffd3c0c96212.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">aggressive advertising campaigns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that have been scrutinized over they years and the district\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/epiccharterschools.org\/learning-fund#:~:text=The%20Learning%20Fund%20is%20an,services%20they%20receive%20from%20EPIC!\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">learning fund<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Epic characterizes the learning fund as a way for parents to pay for $1,000 worth of educational materials. Critics call it a bribe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The money in the learning fund has been the subject of legal battles. During her audit, Byrd tried to access the fund, which has received $80 million in public money over the last five years. However, Epic blocked auditors from analyzing it, contending that it was disbursed by their private management company Epic Youth Services. There is a court case about whether the auditor\u2019s office should have access to the funds scheduled for December.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fight over the fund feels far removed from the virtual classroom, though.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s school as usual for us,\u201d Amanda Cole, an Epic parent who manages an Epic family Facebook page, wrote in a message to StateImpact. \u201cThis is a long process that I don&#8217;t foresee affecting the current school year.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cole\u2019s children have been enrolled in the school for years. And she said she trusts its leaders.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bRYmtIGA12w&t=1s\">promotional video<\/a>, Harris said the district would prove itself using its educational model while facing down the pandemic.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m glad we are here to make sure they don\u2019t have to choose between a school they don\u2019t think is safe for their child and their child having a quality education,\u201d he said. \u201cNo parent should have to make that choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33422\"  class=\"wp-caption module image aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 672px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33422\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-672x416.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-672x416.png 672w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-1920x1188.png 1920w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-768x475.png 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-620x383.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-20-at-11.13.26-AM-1746x1080.png 1746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A copy of the notice of intent to terminate Epic Virtual Charter School&#8217;s Contract with its state authorizer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b>A cloudy future<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will likely be a long, protracted battle over the future of the massive school. Millions of dollars are at stake as well as the lives of 60,000 Oklahoma school children.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next significant event will be a January trial of sorts before the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that hearing, Epic will have a chance to defend itself against the allegations made in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/18nB9OW9IHg8kkVjJKzYSRK1u92s3H-HF\/view?usp=sharing\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">30-page intent to terminate document<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> prepared by Assistant Attorney General Marie Schuble.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schuble\u2019s argument will be that Epic broke state laws, handled money inappropriately and didn\u2019t cooperate with the state audit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the contract is subsequently terminated, Epic will have a chance to appeal to the State Board of Education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the state education board upholds the termination, there\u2019s then another lengthy closing process that could take months.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, Epic is actually two schools and this contract only impacts the one-to-one model of virtual education. The charter for blended schools in Oklahoma City and Tulsa is actually managed by Rose State College. And that college has given no indication of what it might do should Epic\u2019s virtual contract be terminated.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But all of this is far removed from the day-to-day life of Epic families. Christina Glenn said her son Brendan was a little worried about it until they had a conversation about the actual implications it would have on him. He\u2019s a senior, and because of that process it\u2019s practically impossible for the school to close before he graduates.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So for the short term, the Glenn family isn\u2019t worried. Going forward, and for different people, though it\u2019s a different story.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s hundreds of other Brendans in this world,\u201d Christina Glenn said. \u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen to them?\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of what\u2019s occurred, Epic\u2019s model needs to be available for struggling students, she said. They don\u2019t deserve the same level of criticism as the folks who\u2019ve put Epic in the news.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf someone higher up did something bad, the teachers didn\u2019t do it, the students didn\u2019t do it,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t feel like everything should suffer. I\u2019m very passionate about this because it turned around a lot of things for my child.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This COVID-19\/education reporting is made possible through a grant from the Walton Family Foundation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Glenn knows her son\u2019s success is due to Epic Virtual Charter Schools.Brendan Glenn had been struggling in high school before transferring to Epic halfway through 9th grade. And now, the senior is on track to graduate.\u201cThey\u2019ve done a fantastic job,\u201d Christina Glenn said in a telephone interview from her Stillwater home. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":31745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[1117,731,36,43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33417"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34109,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33417\/revisions\/34109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}