PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: While Pennsylvania’s education secretary mulls applications for three new cyber charter schools, a Philadelphia research group has released a paper stating that none of the 14 existing cybers meets state academic standards.
The results of the state’s school performance profiles, released this month, show that cybers “continue to lag far behind both traditional public and charter schools,” according to a policy brief that Research for Action released Monday…
The report found the average cyber scored 48.7 on the state’s 100-point performance scale. None reached 70, the score that Dumaresq has said shows a school is moving toward progress… (more)
