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Pennsylvania’s budget bullies cyber students out of their money Kyle Sammin November 17, 2025 November 14, 2025

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The Pennsylvania state budget for 2025-26 is finally law — just 135 days late. The budget grew 5.1 percent, and will spend an eye-popping $3.5 billion (with a “B”) more than the Commonwealth will receive in tax revenue.

Yet despite this taxpayer-funded deficit-spending spree, one area of the $50.4 billion budget was cut: funding for cyber charters students.

For the second year in a row, over 68,000 K-12 students from Erie to South Philly will get less funding — retroactive to the start of this school year, beginning three months ago. Tragically, too few Harrisburg politicians c

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