Earlier this year Pa.’s auditor general questioned Commonwealth Charter Academy’s spending on buildings for a cyber school, which at the time was thought to be $250 million. But Tim DeFoor’s report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spending by cyber charter schools is the subject of a report by Education Voters of PA. (Stock photo Bill Hinton/Getty Images) ...

Lance Foxworth, a lab specialist at Commonwealth Charter Academy's "TechWorks" building in Homestead, demonstrates a science experiment to more than 1,000 first graders across Pa. via a live video ...

The Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg on July 26, 2023. Most of Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools say they support tightening a law that the state says requires weekly wellness ...

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(TNS) — PennLive editor’s note: This is the seventh story in a series titled “Virtual Dominance: How a cyber charter school has upended K-12 education in Pa.” The series investigates the causes and ...

A medium-sized cyber charter school board in Pennsylvania voted to authorize 160 layoffs on Monday, although exactly which staff members will lose their jobs hasn’t yet been identified. More than 550 ...

Close-up view of a man threading a needle. Man using both hands to put a purple thread into the hole of a sewing needle. Pennsylvania is a national leader in cyber charter schools, both in the number ...

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Pa.’s new budget law could transform what cyber school education looks like, and not just because of the more than $175 million in cuts. Several changes were made to how student residency is verified ...