A study by the Pennsylvania Charter Performance Center found enrollment in online charter schools surged 59 percent in the 2020-21 school year. Boyertown School District estimated this exodus added $5.4 million to its costs.
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Area school districts with the most students of color, and the most living in poverty were shortchanged by Harrisburg when federal COVID-19 relief funds were distributed.
That was the conclusion reached in a new analysis by the Keystone Research Center, an arm of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.
And as Congress debates the provisions of another stimulus package to support the economy during the coronavirus pandemic, education advocates are urging that when Harrisburg distributes any further federal funding, that it not to make this mistake again.
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That s was the message Stephen Herzenberg, executive director of the Keystone Research Center, offered up during a press conference about the analysis.