Sentences with phrase «of cyber charter»

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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.

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.

Our research, along with a body of academic work, suggests that the public should be concerned about an expansion of the cyber charter schooling model.

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

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

21CCCS holds the highest score of any cyber charter on the College Ready Benchmark, which includes the SAT and ACT scores of 12th - grade students.

«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?»

Public school districts, which lose their per - pupil funding each time a student enrolls in one of the cyber charters, are creating their own programs to compete.

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

The number of students attending a cyber charter has steadily increased over the past five years, and this indicated that we needed to do a better job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.»

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.

A lot of cyber schools has state charters that offer free public education to kids.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A 2011 study of Pennsylvania cyber schools found that students in online charter schools performed worse in most measures than their counterparts who spent their days in traditional classrooms.

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..

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.

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.

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.

That total includes 132,860 charter school students, 26 percent of whom attend cyber charters.

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.

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

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In 2015 - 16, the latest year available, cyber charter students in the majority of the 14 cyber charters fared worse on state math and reading tests than the statewide average of all public school students.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Three powerful innovations — home schooling, charter schools, and, most recently, virtual or cyber schools — have each had an impact on our society's contempo - rary ways of educating its young.

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.

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.

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.

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.