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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.
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Traffic cautiously makes its way down West Fourth Street as snow begins to fall of the city Wednesday.
For students in some of the local school districts, the weather forecast of what is predicted to be a huge amount of snow moving into the area over the next few days, will sadly not bring with it the reprieve from school, historically known as a “snow day.”
With many of the districts in remote learning due to the pandemic, students are able to receive instruction, negating the necessity for a weather-related day off. But, not all districts have decided on this action.