Pennsylvania lawmakers did pass cyber charter reforms in last year’s budget—but advocates say that changes addressed the symptoms, not the causes, of cyber charter issues.

At the core of most cyber charter reforms, is critiques of their budgets.

Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts take in money from local taxes, and state and federal funds. Alternatively, charter schools only get funds from school districts. If a district spends, on average, $10,000 on each student every year… then when a student attends a charter school, the district pays the charter $10,000.

Because cyber charter schools can accept any student in the state— sometimes they can get $8,900 for a student, and sometimes they get $23,000.

The tuition rate is not based on what it costs to operate a cyber charter school; whi

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