Sentences with phrase «cyber charter schools»

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.

For a current list of cyber charter schools and to visit the PA Department of Education website, please click here.

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

These include regular schools, charter schools, cyber charter schools, and full - time career and technical education centers.

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.

What is of further concern as one legal scholar, Susan DeJarnatt, has shown is that cyber charter schools may not have all the safeguards needed to protect the sector from fraud.

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

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

What Betsy DeVos, an advocate of school - choice initiatives and President - elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, as well as the rest of us need to know about cyber charter 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In April, the House Education Committee approved a bill supporters say would would reduce the money school districts send to cyber charter schools.

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.

«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.

Joseph Roy, superintendent of Bethlehem Area School District, questions the need for cyber charter schools.

The lack of organic services becomes especially alarming as reports begin to show that cyber charter schools have failed academically, such as in Pennsylvania where not a single cyber charter school met Annual Yearly Progress standards in 2011 — 2012.

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

A much - discussed series that made the list is EdWeek's investigation of cyber charter schools, called Rewarding Failure.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.»

According to the story, Tomalis «supports the choices that charter schools, cyber charter schools and school vouchers, if -LSB-...]

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.

His current research interests include charter schools, cyber charter schools, and K - 12 virtual education programs and policy.

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.

«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?»

Its Education Week Research Center gathers authoritative data for the news organization's Counts reports and works in tandem with the Education Week newsroom on «data journalism» projects around such issues as corporal punishment, school policing, and cyber charter schools.

«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.

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.)

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.

ECOT (the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow) is a for - profit, cyber charter school, that is underperforming on state report cards and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

A specific example of shortcomings of a high - enrollment cyber charter school is shown through many of the failed schools affiliated with national cyber charter company K12 Inc..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.