K12 Inc. Releases Selected Preliminary FY 2011 Financial Data and Announces Delay in Filing Annual Report on Form 10-K

Total revenues for the year ended June 30, 2011 are expected to increase to between approximately $515 million and $520 million, consistent with prior guidance and representing a significant increase compared to revenues of $384.5 million for the year ended June 30, 2010. The Company’s financial position is strong as evidenced by a cash balance of approximately $190 million at June 30, 2011. Furthermore, the Company had no bank debt other than notes payable and capital lease obligations for computers totaling approximately $25 million. This has also been a strong business development year with regard to the opening of new states and the removal or expansion of enrollment caps in several existing states that will impact future results.

The Company has cancelled its conference call scheduled for September 14, 2011. Management will present at the BMO Back-to-School conference on September 15th, at 1:15 PM ET. A webcast of this presentation will be available at the Investor Relations section of our website, www.k12.com .

Forward Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities regulations. These forward-looking statements are identified by their use of terms and phrases such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “will,” “continue” and other similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions and forecasts of future results. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks include, but are not limited to: the reduction of per pupil funding amounts at the schools we serve; reputation harm resulting from poor performance or misconduct of other virtual school operators; challenges from virtual public school opponents; failure of the schools we serve to comply with regulations resulting in a loss of funding; discrepancies in interpretation of legislation by regulatory agencies that may lead to payment or funding disputes; termination of our contracts with schools due to a loss of authorizing charter; failure to renew existing contracts with schools; increased competition; and other risks and uncertainties associated with our business described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that the expectations will be attained or that any deviation will not be material. All information in this release is as of September 12, 2011, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company’s expectations.

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West Virginia Virtual School

West Virginia Virtual School offers students the opportunity, like their peers nationally, to take courses online that are not offered in their local schools. Additionally, some students take courses that they are unable to enroll in locally due to scheduling conflicts. World Languages and Advanced Placement courses are among the most requested virtual courses. West Virginia Virtual School is not a diploma granting institution; rather, students can apply Virtual School credits toward a diploma from their regional school.

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Orchard NowTM Releases Math Concepts for Grades 4-6 Instruction

EdOptions™ is an award-winning education technology firm located in Falls Church, Virginia. Its premier product, Stars Suite®, has served more than one million students nationwide and features 49 middle school and high school courses as well as Web-based solutions for state test preparation, high school preparation, and GED® study. EdOptions Online Academy™, the virtual school division of EdOptions, is a fully accredited online high school designed to support both public and non-traditional educational institutions with rigorous curriculum, powerful Web-based technology, and certified-teacher support. Orchard Software™, the elementary division of EdOptions, provides targeted state standards-based instruction, assessment and data management for grades pre-K-9 in Reading, Language Arts, Math, and Science. For more information, visit www.edoptions.com or email info@edoptions.com.

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Officials awaiting virtual school enrollment

(WVLT)- Tennessee is waiting to see just how much taxpayer money and how many students will be part of the state’s first “virtual school.”

It’ll be run by a for-profit Virginia company who has been trying to entice families to sign up.

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Thousands gather at home-schoolers convention

Virginia is expanding its roster of approved virtual school providers, which offer online courses through a public school system to students anywhere in the state. They could be an attractive option for students who move or travel frequently, live in rural areas where courses are limited or are home-schooled.

But parents interviewed Saturday said that for them, home schooling is about more than having their child learn at home.

Some want biblically focused lessons; others have a child learning at a different pace or in a different way than their peers; others want a more controlled social environment.

By designing their own curriculum, parents can teach to their child’s individual needs, setting their own pace and schedule to follow the intellectual whims of the student.

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Virginia Approves Pearson Virtual Learning Powered by Florida Virtual School for State’s Students

As part of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s initiative to expand access to quality standards-based online learning, Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright has named Pearson Virtual Learning powered by Florida Virtual School (Pearson/FLVS) an approved virtual school provider. Pearson/FLVS will offer students online courses aligned with the commonwealth’s Standards of Learning and delivered by teachers fully licensed by the Virginia Board of Education.

“School districts in Virginia now can broaden the array of courses they offer – and reach out to more non-traditional students — by contracting with virtual schools or online providers that meet rigorous criteria for quality and alignment with state standards,” Wright said. “Pearson’s role in providing access for Virginia students to courses from the Florida Virtual School builds on a partnership that has made the commonwealth a national leader in educational technology and online assessment.”

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13 virtual programs can teach across Va. divisions

Thirteen virtual school programs have earned the state’s stamp of approval to offer online courses to multiple divisions.

The approved providers, announced Monday, offer full-time virtual schools, supplemental instruction programs and “blended-instruction programs” that have an online teacher and an on-site mentor, according to a news release. They include for-profit companies and public school systems.

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‘Virtual schools’ approved

The new “virtual schools” will offer Standards of Learning-based courses taught by licensed teachers. They will be run by or through school systems, but students from outside the areas currently served by those systems will be allowed to attend.

School systems in the state are allowed to offer online courses to their own students, with no more than 10 percent of the students living outside the district’s boundaries. The “virtual school” designation allows the districts to offer the classes to more students from beyond their jurisdictions. State funding will follow the students.

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Bell seeks 2nd term, talks jobs, education

He was at times unsure during his first two-year term as delegate about whether he made the right decision making the leap from local to state governance, Bell said.

However, his work originating or sponsoring legislation making sign language an official foreign language and promoting virtual schools made him certain of his place in the state government, he told the audience.

And he’ll continue looking out for small businesses like Initial Inspiration and Wright’s Dairy Rite in Staunton, where he made his first re-election announcement.

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Virtual school for Southwest Virginia proposed

ABINGDON, Va. –

Southwest Virginia school divisions should consider establishing a virtual school in this part of the state, Bristol Virginia school Superintendent Mark Lineburg said Thursday.

Speaking during a joint meeting of the Bristol, Va., and Washington County, Va., school boards, Lineburg said he favors local schools studying the feasibility of such a program, rather than have state education funding go to a private entity. A private, online education company based in Herndon, Va., has established a virtual school in Carroll County that has attracted 350 students from across the state.

“I don’t see Bristol, Va., doing something like that, but I think all the school systems in Southwest Virginia need to consider us having our own virtual school,” Lineburg said. “This is something the governor is behind and the virtual school in Carroll County is clearly making money for this company.”

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