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Description Of The Business
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Mar. 31, 2012
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| Description Of The Business |
K12 Inc., and its subsidiaries (K12 or the Company), is a technology-based education company. The Company offers proprietary curriculum, software systems and educational services designed to facilitate individualized learning for students primarily in kindergarten through 12th grade, or K-12. The Company's mission is to maximize a child's potential by providing access to an engaging and effective education, regardless of geographic location or socio-economic background. Since the Company's inception, we have invested approximately $275 million to develop and to a lesser extent, acquire curriculum and online learning platforms that promote mastery of core concepts and skills for students of all abilities. This learning system combines our curriculum and offerings with an individualized learning approach well-suited for virtual public schools, hybrid schools, school district online programs, charter schools and private schools that utilize varying degrees of online and traditional classroom instruction, and other educational applications. In contracting with a virtual or hybrid public school, the Company typically provides students with access to the K12 online curriculum, offline learning kits, and use of a computer as required or needed, and we also provide management services to these schools. The Company offers foreign language courses and camps with Middlebury Interactive Languages, our joint venture with Middlebury College. We also operate three online private schools: K12 International Academy, Keystone School and the George Washington University Online High School. In addition, we own a brick and mortar private school, the International School of Berne (IS Berne) located in Berne, Switzerland, and currently own a 20% interest in The Web International Education Group, Ltd., a company providing English instruction to young adults in China. Through Capital Education LLC, we provide online services to post-secondary institutions. During fiscal year 2012, the Company manages schools in 29 states and the District of Columbia. The Company sells access to its online curriculum and offline learning kits directly to individual consumers as well. We provide services through our institutional sales to customers in all 50 states. |