Sentences with phrase «for cyber charter»

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

He worked to benefit cyber charters and K12 specifically when he was Governor of Florida, and in the ensuing years his Foundation for Excellence in Education has been working with ALEC to make it easier for cyber charters, including K12 Inc., to expand nationally.

Not exact matches

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.

«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.

These «cyber» charters must now document their instructional minutes, and their per - pupil funding may be reduced if they offer less than the minimum number of student course minutes per year — a district - style regulation of the process of education without regard for outcomes.

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.

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.

«Reducing the funding formula by 10 percent, for example, would result in cyber charters having to cut from 10 percent to 20 percent of their teachers and staff to make up the difference.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Whether it's charter schools, cyber schools or scholarship programs, empowering parents to choose the education that is best for their child is an effective use of taxpayer dollars.

HB 97 improves ethics and transparency standards for charters and temporarily makes very small reductions in school district payments to cyber charters.

The student would be banned from enrolling in a cyber charter for at least a year until he or she meets the minimum requirement.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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