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Revealed in Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget agenda this week was a proposal to establish a statewide cyber charter school tuition rate aimed at reducing the costs to districts for students attending those schools, which has local superintendents saying it’s a start, and state cyber charter schools calling it “callously wrong.”
Under Wolf’s proposal, cyber charter school tuition would be established at $9,500.
Currently, cyber charter schools in the state charge between $9,170 and $22,300 per student each year. The average tuition rate Intermediate Units in the state charge districts for a comparable online education is about $5,400 per student annually. This change in how cyber charter schools are funded is estimated to save school districts an estimated $130 million annually.
Pa. budget: Gov. Tom Wolf calls for historic funding increase for public schools
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
Posted Feb 03, 2021
Gov. Tom Wolf is calling for a historic shift in the way Pennsylvania school districts are funded by the state. That requires a more than $1.1 billion investment to address the inequalities that existed in the old funding formula. Plus, he wants to increase funding for basic education by $200 million more in his 2021-22 budget proposal.
Sept. 8, 2020.
File/Mark Pynes | mpynes@pennlive.com
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At a glance: Gov. Tom Wolf’s budget proposal was widely applauded by school district advocates as a long-awaited change that will address the funding inequities that have plagued poorer and predominantly Black school districts for decades while ensuring no district receives less than they received this year.
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My RedState colleague, Jennifer Oliver O’Connell, brought up a valid point with her recent op-ed: Black Intellectuals Are Not Impressed with President Biden’s tact, tone, or focus in the weeks after the November election. There has been more skepticism over the initial days of his presidency as well.
Of course, this is a continuation from the guarded side-eyes that Black America has been giving the 46
If you want to see how much the wokeness of Black America will truly matter to the Biden/Harris Administration – especially if you understand that school choice and education equity lead to equality in America watch how it addresses and acts during this National School Choice Week, starting Monday.
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As we approach the third Monday of January in the year 2020 + overtime, there is a simple question that all Americans are asking themselves, whether we want to admit it or not:
Do we still believe in his “Dream”?
Many conservatives use MLK Day to discuss the American Dream – and Dr. King’s Dream – of being “…judged (not) by the color of (one’s) skin but by the content of (one’s) character…” They discuss Dr. King’s deep Christian faith and commitment to non-violence as examples of the best ways to protest, to live, and to affect social change in America. After the elections of 2020, the scourge of the pandemic, the economic pain we are enduring, and the shadows of violent eruptions in the streets of Seattle and the grounds of the US Capitol, I ask: do we still believe in his “Dream”, particularly in January 2021 and enough to eschew justifications of bad behavior for the moral high-ground and the visionary’s obligation to be better during