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Wolf proposes sweeping charter school reforms

Taking a step to fulfill one of his budget priorities, Gov. Tom Wolf and Democratic legislators on Friday offered a detailed charter school reform plan that they said would save $229 million annually, but which opponents said would hurt charter students.   “Pennsylvania’s charter school law is among the worst in the country,” Wolf said during an online press conference discussing the reforms contained in separate bills introduced in the state House and Senate.  Wolf and reform supporters repeatedly said the bills would bring equitable funding, accountability and transparency to charter schools, which include cyber schools that have exploded in popularity during the pandemic.  

At-risk schools shorted millions in COVID-19 aid

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Report: At-risk Pennsylvania schools shorted millions in COVID-19 aid School districts, including Aliquippa, Big Beaver Falls Area and New Castle Area, would have received thousands more in federal COVID-19 aid had the state used a fair funding model to distribute the money, a new report shows. Beaver County Times Pennsylvania’s delivery of some federal COVID-19 aid to schools shortchanged districts with a high density of poor and minority students, including in local counties, a new report finds. State districts with the highest poverty rates received millions less than their wealthy equivalents, and two-and-a-half times less than if a fair funding formula had been used in the second round of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act distribution, according to a recent analysis by the Keystone Research Center.

At-risk schools shorted millions in COVID-19 aid

Pennsylvania’s delivery of some federal COVID-19 aid to schools shortchanged districts with a high density of poor and minority students, including in local counties, a new report finds. State districts with the highest poverty rates received millions less than their wealthy equivalents, and two-and-a-half times less than if a fair funding formula had been used in the second round of Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act distribution, according to a recent analysis by the Keystone Research Center. The Keystone State received millions in CARES funding for schools in two rounds. Federal guidelines required the first round to be allocated using the Title 1 formula factoring in poverty rates, and poor districts received eight times more funding than wealthy ones using this model. Another pot was distributed to charter schools and intermediate districts.

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