Using new powers granted under a trailblazing state law that took effect last July, the Pennsylvania Department of Education has rejected all five of its
first batch of applications for new «
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.