Sentences with phrase «cyber charter school»

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Across all racial and poverty status groups of students in the study, the majority of cyber charter school students showed poor learning growth when compared to their matched twin.

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.»

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

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.

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 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.»

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

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.

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

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

«Why are our legislators rushing to jump off the cliff of cyber charter schools when the best available evidence produced by independent analysts show that such schools will be unsuccessful?»

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

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.»

(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.»

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

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.

In Pennsylvania, for example, more than 36,000 students enrolled in cyber charter schools during 2014 - 2015.

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.

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

Worth noting: Before the Senate Education Committee passed HB 97, they amended the bill to make it even more favorable to the charter industry by stripping out $ 27 million in savings that school districts would have received this year and next year as a result of changes in cyber charter school tuition payments.

Act 88 has put cyber charter schools on firm ground in Pennsylvania and has only enhanced its position as a leader in the cyber charter movement.

Currently, almost 16,000 students attend the 12 cyber charter schools located 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.

The National Education Policy Center (NEPC) conducts an analysis of cyber charter school students every year.

Despite the hope that many parents hold out for this new educational option, the performance of cyber charter schools has consistently, and often drastically, lagged behind the performance of their brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

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

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

In addition to school vouchers, REACH advocates and educates the public on the benefits of tuition tax credits, charter schools (including cyber charter schools) and home schooling.

«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.

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.

A final element that should cause concern about cyber charter schools is that not only do massive cyber schools fail to provide effective services found in quality local public schools, but they also cripple efforts of local public schools to improve.

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.

«In this day and age, every parent knows somebody who has a kid taking their classes through a cyber charter school,» says Holly Brzycki, who oversees online learning for CAOLA.

«Some of the cyber charter schools have fairly aggressive recruitment campaigns,» said Jim Buckheit, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators.