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Our research at Penn State on cyber charter schools has examined enrollments within Pennsylvania and shows that the picture is more complicated.

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Education Week spoke extensively with senior officials from Connections Education, focusing on the company's response to challenges that cyber charters frequently encounter with student engagement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

On Wednesday, Rep. Steve McCarter, D - Montgomery, and Rep. Mike Sturla, D - Lancaster, pitched legislation at a news conference to put a cap on funding to independent cyber charter schools if they are located in a school district that already offers its own cyber prograOn Wednesday, Rep. Steve McCarter, D - Montgomery, and Rep. Mike Sturla, D - Lancaster, pitched legislation at a news conference to put a cap on funding to independent cyber charter schools if they are located in a school district that already offers its own cyber prograon funding to independent cyber charter schools if they are located in a school district that already offers its own cyber program.

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.

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.

Like the charter bill, the cyber school bill would lift the state's cap on cyber schools.

Agora students» improvement on test scores is «competitive with other Pennsylvania cyber charter schools,» K12 said.

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.