Union budget includes tax increase
Once again pointing out that cyber charter costs are dragging down local school districts, Union SD officials last week approved the 2024-2025 preliminary budget which requires a tax increase to the maximum state index.thecourierexpress.com/the_leader_vin…

Cyber charters can serve a niche. But instead, Pennsylvania lawmakers have used taxpayer money to fund a $1 billion-a-year business with a sprawling real estate portfolio, poor education outcomes, little oversight, and dubious spending.
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Princeton Study: Private school tuitions rise after state voucher rollout: “The promise of more access to private education that school vouchers were supposed to provide, is pretty much being negated by schools raising tuition.” kcrg.com/2024/05/17/pri…

'Every member of the General Assembly who is committed to ensuring educational opportunity for every child should do their job and work to secure the full $1.1 billion investment for public school students this year.' #FinishTheJob #FundPAPublicSchools

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It’s a lovely but delusional argument. Because poor children will never have the choices of wealthy people. The vouchers won’t pay for the schools the wealthy children attend and those schools won’t accept the poor students anyway. We should stop pretending vouchers exist due to

“There is a real-world impact to this funding it’s not just numbers on a spreadsheet.” #PABudget #FinishTheJob #FundPAPublicSchools

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'Lancaster County was the home of Thaddeus Stevens ... if he were alive today, he would be appalled by the unconstitutional inequality now existing in our state. He would urge the PA Legislature to pass the proposal for constitutional school funding.'

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Centre County school districts spend millions on cyber charters. Is change coming?
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New Report Exposes the Cyber Charter School Racket in Pennsylvania | Taxpayers are funding asset hoards, property purchases, advertising, and gift cards for cyber charters. What this money is not funding is quality education, writes alain breteau.
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'Pennsylvania cyber charters have turned out to be extremely lucrative, but rather than printing money, they just keep taking it, hand over fist, from Pennsylvania taxpayers.'

Read our full report about the wasteful spending by PA's cyber charters here: edvoterspa.org/cyber-charter-…

PA lawmakers must reform cyber charter funding to stop wasteful spending. Property taxes should fund education, not ads, PR firms, and lobbyists. Tell your lawmakers to reform cyber funding below! #PACyberCharterReform

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Tell state lawmakers to reform cyber charter school funding. Pennsylvanians’ property taxes should be invested in educating students, not wasted on advertising, gift cards, and lucrative contracts or packed into cyber charter asset hoards. Education Voters PA

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In Pennsylvania , A Cyber Charter School Builds A Real Estate Empire forbes.com/sites/petergre… #AnotherDayAnotherCharterScandal Peter Greene Forbes Education Voters PA Alliance4PHLpubSchls Josh Cowen Diane Ravitch 🇺🇸🇺🇦📚🌈🗽🌹 Carol Corbett Burris Jeff Bryant

Privately-run cyber charters are wasting tax dollars meant for students. Where are PA conservatives crying foul?

Ah right, they only trash public schools.

And I’m sure GOP blocking cyber charter reform has nothing to do with who funds their campaigns. forbes.com/sites/petergre…

In PA a cyber charter is amassing a real estate empire funded by property taxes paid by homeowners in school districts that cannot afford to fix and maintain their own buildings. forbes.com/sites/petergre… Peter Greene Forbes PA House Democrats PA House Republicans 🇺🇸 PA Senate Republicans PA Senate Republicans

Meanwhile cyber charters are the only education “intervention” that’s rivaled school vouchers in the size of academic declines they’ve caused.

It's not just Pa. Family Inst. Have you heard of Donors Trust? The $1.4B libertarian fund supports groups like Project Veritas (which bought Ashley Biden’s stolen diary). It's another group that has gotten hundreds of thousands from this Lancaster Bible College-tied charity.

Pennsylvania’s four largest cyber charter schools, which enroll almost 75% of cyber charter students statewide, have been amassing hundreds of millions in assets, while school districts that fund them continue to raise taxes, a new report shows.

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Private, Christian dollars — public school influence.

My latest @lancasteronline investigation is the result of extensive analysis of nonprofit tax documents:

How a charity linked to Lancaster Bible college shapes public school policy in Pennsylvania

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PA Charter Change Roundup May 17:
Pa. cyber charters show ‘excessive profiteering,’ amassing millions in assets, new report says
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