Sentences with phrase «at cyber charter»
The Governor is now taking aim at cyber charters as if cutting their funds will close the state budget gap.
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According to a Solanco School District Press release, «Solanco's SVA does not infringe upon [cyber charter school choice], but rather offers an additional choice which provides a proven and solid academic curriculum, at a much lower cost to the taxpayer.»
Boehm extolls the charter school system: «Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter schools; the Education Improvement Tax Credit, or EITC, which provides an average scholarship of $ 1,000 to low - income families who want their children to attend private schools; and rules that allow parents to teach their students at home.»
If you look at just about every independent analysis of the performance of students in the full - time cyber charter schools compared to their traditional brick - and - mortar counterparts, they do quite poorly.
Or, you can make a cyber visit to the «blended learning» Epic Charter School, whose students are required to meet a teacher (at a convenient, to be determined location) only once every 20 days.
The student would be banned from enrolling in a cyber charter for at least a year until he or she meets the minimum requirement.
On Wednesday, Rep. Steve McCarter, D - Montgomery, and Rep. Mike Sturla, D - Lancaster, pitched legislation at a news conference to put a cap on funding to independent cyber charter schools if they are located in a school district that already offers its own cyber program.
Among the bundle of Republican education bills snaking its way through Lansing is a pair of measures that, at first glance, appears to capitalize on national bipartisan trends in education reform: two bills that would dramatically expand both charter schools and cyber schools in Michigan.
Following such reports of poor academic outcomes and questionable ethical practices, our research team at Penn State has decided to continue to study the cyber charter school movement in Pennsylvania to find out more.
Our research at Penn State on cyber charter schools has examined enrollments within Pennsylvania and shows that the picture is more complicated.