PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: This year, the Philadelphia School District alone will pay $708 million to charter schools.
One element of the proposal is a cut in the taxpayer funding formula for the state’s 15 cyber charters – online schools that have been plagued by scandal and low academic achievement.
But a growing band of public-education advocates is rallying against the bill. While supporting cuts for cyber schools, the opponents say other parts of the bill would speed an already rapid exodus of students from public schools to charters… (more)
