Rob Gleason joins Eugene DePasquale as a resident at the Keystone Center for Charter Change
We are pleased to announce that Rob Gleason, president of the Westmont Hilltop School Board and former 10-year chairman of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, has joined Eugene DePasquale as a resident at the Keystone…
Continue ReadingState Sens. Martin and Aument act against the interests of most county students [column]
Lancaster Onlineby Susan Knoll and Susan Spicka, September 18, 2022 July was a good month for public education in Pennsylvania. Final arguments were presented in the long-awaited public school funding lawsuit, originally filed in 2014…
Continue ReadingAudit of charter school program finds big problems
Washington Post by Valerie Strauss, September 27, 2022 The U.S. Education Department’s Office of Inspector General has released a new audit of the federal Charter School Programs that found some alarming results about how charter school networks have…
Continue ReadingGOP Aims To Remove Charter School Accountability Rules
Forbes by Peter Greene, September 19, 2022 Senator Tim Scott and a group of GOP Congressmen are trying to remove some accountability for rules for the federal charter school grants program. The Charter School Program (CSP)…
Continue ReadingPA: The High Markup For Cyberschooling
Curmudgucation Blog by Peter Green, August 17, 2022 Cyber charters are expensive as hell in Pennsylvania because we are stubbornly stuck with a system that pays the charter based on the cost-per-pupil of the sending…
Continue ReadingThe Negative Fiscal Impact of Cyber Charter School Expansion in Pennsylvania Due to COVID-19
Research for Action Report by David Lapp and Mary Eddins Pennsylvania has the highest cyber charter school enrollment in the country with student enrollment soaring in 2020-21 due to concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. School districts paid…
Continue ReadingVideo: This Week in Pennsylvania: Former Chair of PA GOP Robert Gleason and former State Auditor General Eugene DePasquale discuss the need for charter reform
WHTM ABC27 Harrisburg by James Wesser and James Crummel, August 7, 2022 (WHTM) — In This Week in Pennsylvania, James Crummel reports the latest in Pa. policy and politics. In this week’s episode, Crummel will…
Continue ReadingIt’s time for charter school reform
Lancaster Online by Robert Gleason and Eugene DePasquale, August 4, 2022 Every state budget includes negotiated agreements on a variety of policy issues. Yet, despite bipartisan calls for comprehensive charter school reform, once again the…
Continue ReadingPa. school districts call for charter reform
Latrobe Bulletin by Joe Wells, July 29, 2022 Since the 2011-12 school year, the tuition cost per student paid to charter schools has grown anywhere from 25% to 46% for area school districts. During the…
Continue ReadingEDITOR’S PICK: Superintendents call for charter school reform
Observer-Reporter by Karen Mansfield, July 25, 2022 School officials from five Southwestern Pennsylvania school districts gathered Friday for an online press conference to discuss the impact of inflated charter and cyberschool tuition payments in their…
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