One fifth of all school districts in Pennsylvania are calling for changes to the state law regarding charter schools.
Leaders in 108 of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts are calling for charter school reforms advocated by Gov. Tom Wolf. One of the key reforms would better align payments made to charter schools with the actual cost of educating students resulting, according to the Governor, in savings of up to 280 million dollars.
The Governor points to a recent survey by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, which determined that more than 70 percent of districts identified mandatory charter school tuition costs as one of their biggest sources of budget pressure.
