A bipartisan group of school board leaders and advocates are calling on the General Assembly to pass charter school reform once and for all after more than a quarter of a century of talking about it. The charter school community welcomes those talks.
urging the General Assembly to take action to alter the way charter schools are funded and to impose stricter accountability and transparency rules.Legislators and advocates gathered in the Capitol Rotunda on Monday to call for action on what school leaders identified as the biggest source of public pressure: charter school tuition bills.
While school officials call for more accountability and transparency from charter schools, the way charter schools are funded remains districts’ biggest gripe. “We are not advocating for the elimination or abolishment of charter schools,” said David Schaap, president of Pennsylvania School Boards Association and veteran Allegheny County school board member. “However we are asking that school districts and local taxpayers pay fairly for the costs of providing a charter school education and for greater accountability and transparency of charter schools.”
He said charter schools do not have elected school boards and are not required to have board representation from the community they serve. They can contract with a for-profit company to run their school. Once they do, he said the public loses its ability to see how the for-profit company spends the taxpayer dollars.
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