Stanford University has released a 2019 report on Pennsylvania’s charter schools and the results were overwhelmingly negative: 11 out of 15 Pennsylvania cyber schools were featured on a list of low-performing schools. With Pennsylvania’s current charter school laws being some of the most outdated and insufficient in the nation, the Wolf administration is proposing a three-part plan to fix and modernize Pennsylvania’s charter schools.
“Every student deserves a great education, whether in a traditional public school or a charter school, but the state’s flawed and outdated charter school law is failing children, parents, and taxpayers,” said Governor Wolf in an announcement on November 15. “Pennsylvania has a history of school choice, which I support, but there is widespread agreement that we must change the law to prioritize quality and align funding to actual costs.”
The new charter school plan is projected to save $280 million per year, in part by better aligning charter school funding to actual costs. This includes placing caps on tuition payments for cyber schools. Adding to this, the special education funding formula will apply to charter schools as it does for traditional public schools, as recommended by a bipartisan Special Education Funding Commission.
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