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School Director: Cyber Charter Schools Failing to Make the Grade
"In summary, the performance of the cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania has been a disaster," Canon-McMillan School Director Joseph M. Zupancic writes.
Recently, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued its formal report noting which schools had made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the previous year (2012). Although the press covered this report for traditional public schools, the coverage of the performance of Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools was lacking. Since cyber charter schools are funded entirely through the same tax dollars as our public schools, an analysis of their results is appropriate. In summary, the performance of the cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania has been a disaster. Of the 12 cyber charter schools that have been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education only one, 21st Century Cyber, made AYP. The other 11 schools (91.7 percent) failed to …
Jenifer Morrison
12:13 pm on Saturday, October 13, 2012
I would simply like to point out that as a school director, Mr. Zupancic should be aware that only a percentage of the public schools funds go to the cyber charter. In addition, it is much harder for cyber charters to make AYP as they are graded as 1 school while the districts are broken down in to many schools and groups, which allows the districts to make AYP as a whole when the cyber would not… more ›