PA schools use equity funds to cover rising cyber charter costs

Costly cyber charter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools

When underfunded Pa. school districts got extra money last year, dozens put it toward charter school burdens that one district called "ridiculous."

State House Education Committee holds meeting in Johnstown on cyber charter schools

Members of Pennsylvania's House Education Committee met Friday at Greater Johnstown High School for the second of three scheduled cyber charter school reform hearings across Pennsylvania.

Cyber charter school reform tops legislative agenda as fair education funding effort continues • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

Education advocates and some lawmakers say they support Gov. Josh Shapiro's proposal for a statewide tuition rate for cyber charter schools. (Stock photo by Getty Images)Educators say they’ve seen measurable improvements in student achievement and well-being in the school districts where Pennsylvania targeted a half billion dollars to reduce educational disparities, according to a new report. The adequacy funding, provided as the first installme…

Costly cybercharter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — A surge of taxpayer money approved last year to help students in Pennsylvania’s poorest schools is being used by dozens of districts to pay growing charter school bills that officials say are imperiling their…

Fair funding town hall focuses on special education, cyber school funding

POTTSTOWN — Although the Pennsylvania General Assembly has, after decades of inaction, begun to address the state’s inequitable basic education funding system, which a judge last year ruled to be unconstitutional, other school funding areas remain in need of action as well, according to speakers at a town hall dedicated to the subject. Chief among these are special education funding and the need to reform the formula by which cyber charter schoo…

Cyber charter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools

When underfunded Pa. school districts got extra money last year, dozens put it toward charter school burdens that one district called "ridiculous."