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The cost of charter schools for school districts continue to grow.

That money could be better spent at DTSD for needs such as: DTSD is projected to spend $1.4 million in local taxpayer money to pay for 102 students to attend cyber charter schools during the 2020-21 school year. Tuition costs paid to charter schools divert money from DTSD's operating budget, which eventually leads to increases in property taxes. Nearly $606 million of that total was tuition to cyber charter schools, which is $112 million more than what school districts spent on all student activities such as athletics and extra curriculars. To put that into perspective, that would pay the average salary of 29,700 teachers and is more than 3 times what school districts spent on providing students with career and technical education programs. In 2018-19, total charter school tuition payments (cyber and brick-and-mortar) were more than $2.0 billion.

The act would increase transparency of for-profit companies that operate charter schools in Pennsylvania. The plan would hold low-performing charter schools accountable to improve educational quality and protect $229 million a year in tax dollars. In February 2021, PA Governor Tom Wolf unveiled a bipartisan Charter School Accountability plan to protect students and taxpayers. What cyber charter schools are very good at, however, is siphoning money from public dollars from locally-accountable public schools.ĭerry Township School District is one of nearly 400 Pennsylvania school districts urging Governor Tom Wolf and the state legislature to support charter school reform. Once hailed as “school choice,” the reality is, cyber charter schools have actually done little to strengthen education or offer effective programs and services. You've see them, those slick ads offering "free online education" using computers handed out "at no cost" but did you ever stop to wonder who is paying for those services (and those expensive ads)? The fact is, you are paying those costs - and at the expense of the local school district you thought your tax dollars were supporting.