A Stanford study last year found cyber-students in Pennsylvania made "significantly smaller gains in reading and math" than peers in traditional public schools.
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FinGado said while one district may pay $5,000 for a student enrolled in cyber school a student from another district may pay $7,000 for that student to attend the same cyber school even though it doesn't cost the cyber school more for that student to be educated.
Poor overall test scores coupled with the governor's cuts prompted Bethlehem Area School District to create its own 260-student cyber academy -- a $2.64 million expenditure.
Citing better standardized test scores and diplomas from known schools, traditional Pennsylvania public school officials are attempting to win back students from cyber and charter schools by starting their own cyber academics.
In classrooms, we have seen how teachers can be cyber-shields for their students, and how parents can be cyber-shields outside of school time and at home.
According to district superintendent Joseph Roy, in-house cyber schools ensure that students who pursue this route are being educated to state standards.
One of the lessons of our in-school digital literacy, or Cyber Civics, classes asks students to write their own online social norms.
Pennsylvania's 13 public, state-chartered cyber schools enrolled 32,322 students in online education programs this school year, and enrollment continues to grow, according to the Express-Times.
They can sample criminology, find out about the student union, try balancing a budget and play spot-the-difference in a cyber version of a student's scruffy room.
