Sentences with phrase «cyber charter school funding»

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

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.

Not exact matches

Public school districts, which lose their per - pupil funding each time a student enrolls in one of the cyber charters, are creating their own programs to compete.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner called last week for a moratorium on new charter and cyber charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in how taxpayers finance those alternatives to regular public schools.

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

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

One concern is that districts receiving the minimum amount, such as KPS, which serves high - poverty neighborhoods, won't get the resources they need for the challenges they face, and that smaller, lower - funded charter and cyber schools will receive more than they need.

Again using Pennsylvania as an example, the funding formula for charter schools in the Commonwealth dictates that a local district has to pay the per - pupil cost for each one of its students that attends a cyber charter school.

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.

So by chartering a cyber school, the district could make a little extra money: charter authorizers get a percentage of their charter schools» state funding.