From the PITTSURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW:
…More than 90,000 students are enrolled in 142 public charter schools, including 12 cyber charter schools, according to the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools. An estimated 30,000 students are on waiting lists….
A study of Pennsylvania charter school performance released in April by Stanford University shows that from 2007 to 2010, 60 percent of traditional charter schools performed similarly or better than traditional public schools in reading. Fifty-three percent did so in math.
Nearly all of the state’s cyber charter schools performed significantly worse than their traditional public school counterparts in reading and math…
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