Sentences with phrase «cyber charters as»

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

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

When Pennsylvania recalculated charter schools» AYP using the same formula as traditional public schools, a much lower percentage of charter schools (both bricks - and - mortar charters and cyber charters) reached AYP than traditional public schools.

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.

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

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.

A number of alternative school models, including cyber charters, are beginning to gain traction as a result of the interest in and availability of online coursework.

«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.

Depending on what happens in Lansing, cyber schools, whose quality is just as mixed as that of charter schools, could also explode throughout Michigan.

McMillin is expected to continue supporting Scott's education policies, as well the charter school and cyber school bills.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The City University of New York Chancellor James Milliken said: «The City University of New York is very pleased to partner with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance as a charter member of the Global Cyber Alliance, dedicated to confronting cyber security risks.

«The City University of New York is very pleased with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance as a charter member of the Global Cyber Alliance, dedicated to confronting cyber security risks.»