How are charter schools funded? And how does that funding impact public school districts in Pennsylvania?

Lindsay Burrill-VanDellen published an article in the Legal Intelligencer discussing the detrimental impact the current charter school funding scheme in Pennsylvania has on public school districts in the state and the importance of passing cyber charter school funding reform. “Because of the lower cost for cyber charter schools to educate students and the increased tuition payments made by school districts [to cyber charter schools], charter schools can—and are—making a profit off of what the districts are required to pay, while school districts are suffering significant hits to their limited budgets that they cannot recoup.”

The full article is available here.

The Legal Intelligencer is Pennsylvania’s premier publication for legal news. Attorneys at Berney & Sang publish regularly in the Intelligencer about education and the law.

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