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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Charter School Participation Increases in Upper St. Clair

The superintendent expressed frustration Monday night.

The Upper St. Clair School Board reviewed the increasing costs of cyber charter and charter schools Monday night. In 2007-08, the district had to pay more than $80,000 in charter school tuition for 10 Upper St. Clair students. In 2011-12, the district had to spend more than $285,000 in charter school tuition for 29 Upper St. Clair students. Two of the students in 2011-12 were in special education cyber charter school programs. Home-schooled students switching to cyber schools might be attributing to the increase of charter school students in Upper St. Clair, Superintendent Patrick O'Toole said. The district must pay tuition for the students who decide to go to charter school instead of Upper St. Clair schools, according to Upper St. Clair …

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Tax Dollars Pay for Cyber Charter School Ads (in Canon-McMillan Patch) and Patch Poll: Should PA School Districts Revoke Charters of Underperforming Charter Schools?

John Jahigglewitz

10:13 am on Friday, March 22, 2013

What about the cafeteria at the high school being called a "nutrition" center? I don't understand that at all? Probably because of the IB program or the charter schools.   more ›

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Should Local School Districts Open Their Own Cyber Schools?

Neshannock Township School District is offering its own online learning academy to compete with other nonprofit and for-profit cyber charter schools.

Reasons vary as to why people decide to enroll their children in cyber schools. For some, it's to avoid disciplinary and behavior problems they feel are rampant in the brick-and-mortar school. Others feel their child is not thriving in public school and choose cyber school instead of charter, private or parochial options. Regardless of the reason, almost 30,000 students in Pennsylvania are being served by cyber schools, according to the Commonwealth Foundation. Cyber schools remain controversial, though, in terms of real student success, costs and the money they drain from public schools. Neshannock Township School District, located just north of New Castle, seems to have come up with a way to keep that money in-house while still providing…

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Woodland Hills School District (in Forest Hills-Regent Square Patch)

NE12Ukid

6:10 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012

...•Removing "double dip" for pension costs by charter schools. School district's cost for retirement expenditures is not subtracted from expenditures in calculation that determines funding for charters and sets up a "double dip" since state law guarantees charter schools reimbursement for retirement costs. The PA Association of School Business Officials estimates between 2011-12 and 2016-17, …   more ›

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