Pa auditor wants moratorium on new charter schools
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner on Tuesday called for a moratorium on new charter and cyber-charter schools, pending an overhaul of a funding system that he said has resulted in serious inequities in what taxpayers pay to finance these public school alternatives.
At a Capitol news conference, Wagner released a "special report" based on a review of 18 charter schools and information from the state Department of Education.
He said the root of the problem is a state law that requires individual school districts to pay a charter-school tuition rate per pupil based on a district's own costs. That results in different
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