Pa. plans to shut down online charter school Frontier
Pennsylvania's secretary of education says the state plans to pull the plug on the embattled Frontier Virtual Charter High School for failing to deliver the education it promised students.
In documents filed Monday, Secretary Ronald Tomalis said he intended to yank the Philadelphia-based school's charter for failing to follow its operating agreement, violating the state charter-school law, and failing to maintain the finances necessary to provide services to students.
Frontier, which has administrative offices at 3020 Market St., has been plagued with financial and management problems since it was launched last fall. It is one of 13 cyber charter schools in the state that enroll more than 42,000 students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Education Department officials said Frontier provided online instruction in 2011-12 to about 90