geographical regions in this Commonwealth, each of which must
include at least one intermediate unit, to be determined by the
Department of Education.
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"Primary regional cyber charter school" shall mean a cyber
charter school, intermediate unit that provides online education
or school district that provides online education, which has,
through competitive sealed bidding, been awarded a contract by
the Department of Education to provide services to and receive
funding for students residing in a bidding region, and which
contract provides for the reimbursement of tuition by school
districts.
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Section 2. Section 1725-A(a) of the act, amended June 29,
2002 (P.L.524, No.88), is amended and the section is amended by
adding a subsection to read:
Section 1725-A. Funding for Charter Schools.--(a) Funding
for a charter school shall be provided in the following manner:
(1) [There] Except as provided for in subsection (a.1),
there shall be no tuition charge for a resident or nonresident
student attending a charter school.
(2) For non-special education students, the charter school
shall receive for each student enrolled no less than the
budgeted total expenditure per average daily membership of the
prior school year, as defined in section 2501(20), minus the
budgeted expenditures of the district of residence for nonpublic
school programs; adult education programs; community/junior
college programs; student transportation services; for special
education programs; facilities acquisition, construction and
improvement services; and other financing uses, including debt
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