Sentences with phrase «cyber charter school students»

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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.

(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 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 school to the Solanco Virtual Academy (SVA.)

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 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.

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.

For example, an eight - year - old student in a cyber charter program may get the knowledge of a math concept from afar, but he or she won't get a hug, high - five, or pat on the back from the school's headquarters.

A 2011 study of Pennsylvania cyber schools found that students in online charter schools performed worse in most measures than their counterparts who spent their days in traditional classrooms.

And, as it turns out, low - performing students tend to be drawn to cyber charter schools, the study found.

The bill, proposed by Sen. David Argall, R - Schuylkill, would require students who are consistently underperforming in a cyber charter school to return to a brick - and - mortar school, according to a May 31 memorandum.

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

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In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.

The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among families seeking alternatives to the traditional public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most of their students have been unable to reach state benchmarks on math and reading tests.

However, since these numbers are nationally aggregated and not every state has a cyber charter school, we believe comparing national cyber charter school averages to all students nationally may be problematic.

The best estimate comes from an internal report of one of the largest national providers of cyber charter schools: The report found that a small percent — 13.6 percent of cyber school students in those schools — were previously homeschooled.

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

A 2015 annual report prepared by a consulting group that tracks online school practice and is often cited by scholars to describe cyber charter school enrollment shows that in 2014 - 2015 there were 275,000 students in cyber charter schools across 25 states.

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 the cyber version of the charter school, instruction is typically delivered to the students online wherever they may live, so long as they are residents of the state in which the cyber charter school operates.

In their report they noted that improved academic outcomes for a student in a cyber charter school was «the exception rather than the rule.»

Agora students» improvement on test scores is «competitive with other Pennsylvania cyber charter schools,» K12 said.