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Pa. needs to fix its unfair special education funding for charter schools | Opinion
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
By State Rep. Joe Ciresi
The system in which Pennsylvania pays charter schools for special education is broken. For every special education student who leaves a traditional public school to attend a charter school, their home district is required to reimburse that charter school based on an illogical average cost to educate special education students.
The problem is that in practice, nine times out of 10 the true cost is lower than this average, resulting in tens of millions of dollars in overpayments funneled away from the students in our traditional public schools.
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