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by Christen Smith, The Center Square | June 03, 2021 07:00 PM Print this article
Gov. Tom Wolf stood firm Monday in his resolve to reform Pennsylvania’s decades-old charter school law.
But he will face a tough – nearly impossible, some say – battle in the General Assembly, where preserving school choice remains popular within the GOP-controlled Legislature.
“Let’s create a level playing field here,” Wolf said during a news conference Monday in Lancaster. “We are all in the business of taking taxpayer dollars to make students lives’ better.”
Wolf’s proposed changes, encapsulated in House Bill 272, would standardize cyber charter tuition to $9,500 per student and recalculate a charter school’s special education funding using an updated formula the Legislature approved in 2015. In total, districts could save $395 million, the administration said.
Gov. Tom Wolf stood firm Monday in his resolve to reform Pennsylvania s decades-old charter school law.
But he will face a tough â nearly impossible, some say â battle in the General Assembly, where preserving school choice remains popular within the GOP-controlled Legislature. Let s create a level playing field here, Wolf said during a news conference Monday in Lancaster. We are all in the business of taking taxpayer dollars to make students lives better.
Wolf s proposed changes, encapsulated in House Bill 272, would standardize cyber charter tuition to $9,500 per student and recalculate a charter school s special education funding using an updated formula the Legislature approved in 2015. In total, districts could save $395 million, the administration said.
SOUDERTON â Proposals backed by school districts across the state and Gov. Tom Wolf to reform charter school funding would unfairly cut the funding going to the charter schools, the CEO of the largest organization advocating for Pennsylvania charter schools said during a May 26 visit to Souderton Charter School Collaborative. First and foremost, this is not the time to cut funding for any public school within the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Charter schools are public schools, said Lenny McAllister, Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools CEO. Â
School districts pay tuition to the charter schools students from the district attend, currently based on the amount the sending district spends per student in the district. The proposed changes would set a standard fee statewide at less than is now paid. One of the particularly troubling aspects of the proposal is that the amount paid charter schools for special education students would decrease, affecting som