by David Safier "Seeking Alpha," a company that gives investment advice, is suggesting people "short" K12 Inc. stock, which means it's betting the stock will go down. No corporation wants to hear that kind of talk. Ex-Intel CEO Craig Barrett, who is one of eight members of K12's Board of Directors, should be feeling a … Read more
by David Safier Jean Olson didn't have her Sunnyside School District contract renewed after she reported that first and second grade teachers had helped their students cheat during a standardized test. The good, but insufficient, news is that the Board settled with her over her firing. But too many questions are still unanswered. The most … Read more
by David Safier I've heard stories of charters like BASIS expecting parents to give the school a donation as a non-obligatory part of enrolling their children, though I haven't gotten any absolute confirmation. Now it looks like Great Hearts charter schools are doing something similar. This is wrong on at least two counts. First, while … Read more
by David Safier K12 Inc., the country's largest online school corporation, is in trouble again, this time in Florida. It's being investigated for using uncertified teachers and telling its certified staff to provide cover. K12 officials told certified teachers to sign class rosters that included students they hadn’t taught, according to documents that are part … Read more
by David Safier A Capitol Times article (subscription only) about Prop 204, the renewal of the one cent sales tax, most of which will go for education, talks about the strategies the anti-204, moneyed interests are planning to take to try and defeat the initiative. They're going to say it was "written by special interest … Read more