Bush Financier K12 Inc Under Fire for Ineffectiveness; Contracts With 39 Florida Districts
With an FBI investigation underway of an affiliated virtual charter school network in Pennsylvania affiliated with K12 Inc a National Education Policy Center report urged states to “curb the growth of virtual charters until they demonstrate dramatically improved academic results.” From reporter Ian Quillen in Education Week:
The National Education Policy Center has renewed its call for states to curb the growth of full-time virtual schools until they can demonstrate dramatically improved academic results.
“Understanding and Improving Virtual Schools,” released Wednesday, stems from an analysis of federal and state data sets for revenue, expenditures, and student performance across the 59 full-time virtual schools run by Herndon, Va.-based K12 Inc., the nation’s largest for-profit online learning provider, according to a press release from NEPC, a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colo.