Saturday, January 12, 2013

A Call for a Moratorium on Cyber Charter Charter Schools in PA | Scathing Purple Musings

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A Call for a Moratorium on Cyber Charter Charter Schools in PA

From a story last month from Public News Service of Pennsylvania:
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Some Pennsylvania groups say cyber charter schools in the state aren’t making the grade, and they’re urging state education officials to impose a moratorium on any new ones. Rhonda Brownstein, the executive director of the Education Law Center, says only one of the cyber charters operating in Pennsylvania in 2011 made adequate yearly progress.
“And, a Stanford University study found that both in reading and math all eight of the cyber charters that were operating at the time, a couple of years ago, performed significantly worse than public schools.”
TaiMarie Adams, Co-Director of Education Policy at Public Citizens for Children and Youth, says