Sentences with phrase «cyber charter»

The argument is especially relevant in the discussions surrounding local versus national control of schooling, specifically in the growing practice of replacing local schools with cyber charter schools.

This research is consistent with others that examine the academic outcomes of cyber charter schools.

These studies provide similar results about extremely lower learning growth in cyber charter schools in these state contexts when compared to other schools.

Comment on cyber charters - This is a very good observation, guest.

Thus, high - enrollment cyber charter schools are inherently void of some of the interaction needed to enhance learning for young children.

As with traditional charter schools, the general idea behind cyber charter schools is to allow families and students to have a choice other than their local public school.

Most cyber charter schools allow enrollment by students from many school districts.

In some states, tens of thousands of students enroll in cyber charter schools.

Lawmakers need to stop high - enrollment cyber charter schools and continue to promote sound public education.

In having a platform not capable of delivering in - person interaction, cyber charter schools miss many of the nuances often overlooked in a well - rounded public education.

He's pushing legislation that would likely decrease funding for cyber charter schools, limit how much they can spend on advertising, and require the state to enforce minimum online and offline hours for students.»

The Governor is now taking aim at cyber charters as if cutting their funds will close the state budget gap.

Research about cyber charter school performance outcomes paints a dismal picture linked to test - based outcomes.

The study found that «in every subgroup, with significant effects, cyber charter performance is lower.»

That total includes 132,860 charter school students, 26 percent of whom attend cyber charters.

House and Senate both commit to giving for - profit cyber charters the same funding as regular schools;

«Based on the preponderance of evidence, as well as the fraud and mismanagement associated with cyber charter schools, we strongly recommend that parents not enroll their children in virtual schools,» the report stated.

In the 2012 — 13 school year, more than 240,000 students in Florida took at least one online course, nearly 35,000 students logged into Pennsylvania cyber charters every morning, and 2 million students nationwide enrolled part - time or full - time in online programs.

March 7, 2012 In the Patriot News, Op - Ed columnist James Hanak assails the propensity to cut funding for successful cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania.

Boehm extolls the charter school system: «Pennsylvania boasts a robust charter school system that includes cyber charter -LSB-...]

The state already tracks the performance of cyber charters as part of the annual School Performance Profile report it issues on all public schools.

Penn State researchers who interviewed parents who enrolled their children into cyber charter schools found that parents thought these schools were better customized to their children's needs, carried little financial risk and were possibly the last hope for their child to succeed in school.

The idea of full - time, online schooling is still a new experiment for many Pennsylvania public schools — CAOLA is six years old — but it's old news for the 16 cyber charters across the state.

Roebuck said: «Governor Tom Wolf has proposed $ 160 million in savings from reforming cyber charter school payments.

Education Week spoke extensively with senior officials from Connections Education, focusing on the company's response to challenges that cyber charters frequently encounter with student engagement.

An Education Week investigation shines a light on what's wrong with the country's cyber charter sector.

Pennsylvania education officials will allow a troubled and cash - strapped cyber charter school to remain open after it promised to make changes.

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.

While Solanco School District should be commended for embracing their own form of «school choice,» it should be noted that currently, PA law prohibits cyber charter schools from providing grants such as the one proposed by Solanco.

(Harrisburg, PA — May 5, 2011)-- Solanco School District in Quarryville is launching a program that gives district students $ 1,000 to switch from their current PA cyber charter school to the Solanco Virtual Academy (SVA.)

«The school choice community always has their arms open to new advocates for school choice, but this attempt by Solanco School District to financially entice families to switch to their own cyber charter school is shameful,» says Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.

Five of those six high schools are in Philadelphia, and if you exclude a statewide cyber charter school, they are the five worst schools in the entire state.

He's supporting charter schools in the past, so I don't know why he's forgetting cyber charter schools now.»

Support cyber charter school funding reform that would save our school districts more than $ 160 million and allow them to reinvest this money into our schools to restore programs and services that have been cut in recent years.

Right now, legislators in Harrisburg are discussing cyber charter school funding reform that could save our school -LSB-...]

The study, which covered all 17 states where cyber charters are offered as well as the Distinct of Columbia, also found students tend to opt out early as well.

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.

Brian Hayden, CEO of Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, the state's largest cyber charter school with about 9,170 students, said he finds the proposal concerning.

Our current research examines how cyber charter schools have influenced the entire education system in Pennsylvania.

Despite such opposition, the first cyber charter school in Pennsylvania, the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School was started by a school superintendent to help public school students to stay in their school district rather than be bused to Ohio because the district has no public high school.

For example, we all know that cyber charters bleed our district and should not have the same funding as brick - and - mortar charters.

They did this matching twice, once to compare individual gains of cyber charter students to their statistical twin in brick - and - mortar charter schools and once to compare them to their statistical twin in a brick - and - mortar district school.

Our research at Penn State on cyber charter schools has examined enrollments within Pennsylvania and shows that the picture is more complicated.

As «a member of the House Education Committee, Truitt is opposed to the idea of changing the funding formula for cyber charter schools.»

Studies have looked at cyber charter school outcomes in Pennsylvania and in Ohio.

These concerns are best expressed in The Notebook's blog article about cyber charter school reform and in Penn State Professor Ali Carr - Chellman's TEDxTalk on the issue.

The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), a for - profit cyber charter, is supposed to pay back $ 60 million to the state of Ohio because the school was unable to verify the attendance of 40 percent of its students.

High - enrollment cyber charter schools — schools that have thousands of students from vast demographic areas — enact ideals found in corporate mass production by utilizing economies of scale to provide academic services to an extensive student population.

In our study of enrollments in Pennsylvania, we found that the majority of students in cyber charter schools are indeed white, but they match the racial demographics of the state.