Proposed Pa. budget would change how cyber charter schools are funded

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s 2026-27 budget proposal includes changes to how Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools are ...
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Pa.’s largest cyber school is spending $500 million on a network of buildings

Editor’s note: This is the ninth story in a series titled “Virtual Dominance: How a cyber charter school has upended K-12 education in Pa.” The series investigates the causes and consequences of the ...
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Local public school leaders say Pa. cyber charter audit may spark funding reform

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A report by Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy DeFoor on five cyber charter schools’ finances has created a ...
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Pa.’s cyber schools face big changes, as they adapt to weekly ‘progress checks’

Pa.’s new budget law could transform what cyber school education looks like, and not just because of the more than $175 million in cuts. Several changes were made to how student residency is verified ...
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Most Pa. cyber charters back mandatory weekly wellness checks as Senate moves to tighten law

The Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg on July 26, 2023. Most of Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools say they support tightening a law that the state says requires weekly wellness ...
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PA lawmakers examine cyber charter schools' reserves amid funding debate

CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) — Cyber charter schools are reportedly holding hundreds of millions of dollars in reserves while public schools are paying them millions of dollars in taxpayer money. That's ...
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Costly cyber charter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools

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Pa. lawmakers debate cyber charters, where a kid with all D’s and F’s outperformed most of his peers

The academic outcomes at Pennsylvania’s 14 cyber charter school districts compare poorly to typical brick and mortar schools, according to experts who testified at a House Education Committee hearing ...
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Cyber charter reform that could save public schools $616M advances with unclear future in Pennsylvania Senate

Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom producing investigative and public-service journalism that holds power to account and drives positive change in Pennsylvania. Sign ...
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PA Cyber’s Holocaust remembrance video earns regional Emmy award. More about the honor

A Beaver County school has won a regional Emmy. The Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland earned the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Regional Emmy Award for “Moments in History: Melvin Goldman” in the ...
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Costly cyber charter tuition is consuming tens of millions of new state dollars for poor Pa. schools

FILE - In this Thursday, March 11, 2021 file photo, desks are arranged in a classroom at an elementary school in Nesquehoning, Pa. A surge of taxpayer money approved last year to help students in ...