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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 11, 2012 04:40 PM |
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| From: | Senator Judith L. Schwank |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Cyber |
| I will shortly introduce legislation that relieves school districts that provide a qualifying cyber program from financial responsibility for its resident students who enroll in a cyber charter program outside the district. School districts now are responsible to cyber charter schools for a district resident's tuition, in the amount of the net per-student share of the district’s state basic education funding. Where a district offers a cyber program equal in scope and content to the non-district cyber charter school, my legislation will remove that responsibility. Since in such situations it is the family’s choice to attend school outside the home district, my legislation treats the cyber situation similarly to situations involving brick-and-mortar schools, in which the family bears the tuition costs. This removes a needless and unfair obstacle in the way of districts attempting to provide cyber programs for their students. Similar legislation introduced as SB 1402 in the 2009-2010 session included Senators Boscola, Dinniman, Ferlo, Fontana and Ward as co-sponsors. |
Introduced as SB335