Like the charter bill,
the cyber school bill would lift the state's cap on cyber schools.
McMillin is expected to continue supporting Scott's education policies, as well the charter school and
cyber school bills.
Not exact matches
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.
In April, the House Education Committee approved a
bill supporters say would would reduce the money
school districts send to
cyber charter
schools.
Among the bundle of Republican education
bills snaking its way through Lansing is a pair of measures that, at first glance, appears to capitalize on national bipartisan trends in education reform: two
bills that would dramatically expand both charter
schools and
cyber schools in Michigan.
The
bill would also allow the
cyber programs to receive the same per - student public funding as traditional public
schools.
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.