PA rejects cyber education
Pennsylvania has sent another clear message to cyber charter schools this year—'you're not wanted here.'
Pennsylvania has sent another clear message to cyber charter schools this year—'you're not wanted here.'
The Pennsylvania Department of Education has put another cap on Cyber Charter Schools for 2014—six applications have been rejected after barely three months of consideration. Last year, all eight schools that applied were rejected.
Currently, 16 cyber charter schools serve 35,000 students at a statewide cost of more than $10,000 per student, not much less than what the Philadelphia School District spends on each of its 200,000 students while operating and staffing 300 buildings. The cash-strapped Philadelphia School District spends $50 million on cyber charter schools alone.
Districts are required to fund schools based on how much they spend per student. The same cyber school could receive thousands extra from a student in a well-funded district for the same education as a student in an average-funded district.
Governor Corbett has been calling for a reduction in cyber school funding since 2012. Earlier this year, a Temple law professor published her research findings that showed how cyber charter schools spend millions less than they receive for students' educations.
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