At the time of K12’s inception, many in education were exploring different options in school choice, and some believed that online learning combined corporate efficiencies with the Internet in a revolution of public education, offering high quality at lower costs (Saul 2011). Secretary of Education) William Bennett, the organization’s initial audience was the nation’s 1.5-2 million homeschooled children (Starr 2001). The company first took off due to $40 million in venture capital from some of Packard’s wealthy cohorts (Ibid.), and according to the chairman of K12 Inc. Packard, a former banker and McKinsey & Co. Each of the online charters we examined was contained within a particular school district, and so all district-level comparisons are with the respective K12 school’s assigned district. For school performance data, we looked at the school and district performance reports issued by individual states. We also used demographic data that was recorded as part of the DOE’s Civil Rights Data Collection program. We used ELSI, an online tool for searching through federal education statistics, to examine school demographic data recorded by the Department of Education (DOE). To examine this proposition, our paper evaluates data from six randomly selected K12 schools.
In this case, though, it remains doubtful that traditional schooling will ever be supplanted by online education – at least not as long as it looks like K12. K12 is sucking up public dollars at a time when policymakers are itching to implement technological solutions to the nation’s issues. Despite attractive media and positive testimonials on official school websites, the true nature of K12’s charter schools is exposed in the numbers, which act as a Mr. K12 has been the recipient of public ire and various lawsuits claiming that the company has mismanaged resources and failed to put student achievement ahead of its profits. In its position as a for-profit company, K12 pulls public dollars from local, state, and federal governments while often failing to produce results. However, student achievement data places K12-managed charters decidedly below their district counterparts. Critics remark that K12’s unique structure develops student responsibility through autonomy in control of schedule and pace (Ash 2012). As of 2011, K12 offered 49 online academies in 23 states for a total of 65,396 students (Miron et al. Parent testimonials on the CMO’s website praise a challenging curriculum, with extensive student and parent support, so that even outside a traditional classroom setting, students still receive a superior education (Ibid.). The organization boasts of its adaptability compared to both traditional and alternative charter schools, highlighting the advantages of online education in time flexibility, socialization, curriculum, and individual learning (K12 Inc. Technically, this qualifies K12 as an Educational Management Organization (EMO) as opposed to a Charter Management Organization (CMO), which is typically nonprofit and limited to managing services, not providing them. is a for-profit, online education company that provides online lessons, interactive activities, and virtual classrooms for full-time students. Students enrolled in Fraser Virtual K-12 may still have access to participate in Fraser athletics and student organizations.Sydney Babiak, Emily Patton, Jaclyn Price, and Billy Roberts.Fraser Public Schools will provide a device (iPad for K-6 and MacBook for 7-12) to every student upon enrollment and completion of the Parent Technology Agreement.Students may need to come to school for key small group instruction and assessments.Learning will be robust and expectations will be identical to a face-to-face school model.Students will need a learning coach at home to help facilitate the direct instruction.The learning coach, at home, needs to support the student with daily instruction, content delivery, and technology.
For younger students, a learning coach will be a critical piece in each student's success.
The majority of the instruction will be online and course content will be delivered by Lincoln Learning and Edgenuity. A Fraser teacher will be assigned to help students check in, stay on track, and align the grading system with Fraser’s. Virtual learners will receive direct instruction from either a Lincoln Learning or Edgenuity teacher. We are excited to partner with Lincoln Learning for our K-6 students and Imagine Edgenuity for grades 7-12 students.
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