Smart move.

Peer countries is a more important consideration. Also, the education budget isn't keeping up with GDP. It also doesn't meet UNESCO’s benchmark of a 15.00% share of total public expenditure on education.

These are some of the reasons that our education system isn't working at the level that it should.

Don’t rich Republicans care about their property tax bills skyrocketing due to this?

> Nope, not bullshit logic at all. Test/performance anxiety is a very real thing and is very well documented. People shouldn't be punished for their inability to perform under pressure, especially not kids.

We've been doing it wrong for hundreds of years. Tests have been a thing for a very long time.

It's dishonest to even say that it's about "anxiety". It's a recent movement linked to "equity".

Unfortunately the law and the reality are different.

Charters kick kids with IEP needs out or don’t admit them under the guise of not having resources for them. They kick kids out for behavior, or don’t admit them for truancy issues at a previous school. They hold their admissions lotteries at one specific location in one specific neighborhood for one hour one night per year.

> Quite literally you can log into a cyber charter, walk away, and get counted as present. Counting those kids as present is fraud. You cannot do that at public school.

I went to school in the hood, you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

Stop the lies

>> Charters are often selective in who they admit

>A charter school shall not discriminate in its admission policies or practices based on intellectual ability or athletic ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, status as a person with a disability, English language proficiency, or any other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district. Further, a charter school may not use achievement tests, entrance examination tests, enrollment forms, admissions interviews, or other means of testing a student’s intellectual ability, disability status, English language proficiency or other basis that would be illegal if used by a school district to grant or deny admission. A charter school also may not require a student to obtain or maintain a particular grade point average to be admitted to the charter school. The chartering school district may conduct periodic audits of the school's applicants, accepted students, and enrolled students.

https://www.education.pa.gov/Policy-Funding/BECS/Purdons/Pages/CharterSchools.aspx

Thank you all!

Check with your local township or borough. You can search their website and it should tell you if a permit is required.

Its much different.

I certainly have my issues with public education, particularly social promotion, but the difference in engagement is not comparable.

Quite literally you can log into a cyber charter, walk away, and get counted as present. Counting those kids as present is fraud. You cannot do that at public school.

The reason you had a good experience is because you were an involved parent. It IS a lot of work, no matter what kind of school your kid is in.

Except that the kids who leave “bad” schools and go to charters often perform worse than the kids who stayed at the “bad” school. Charters are often selective in who they admit, have parents who care (enough) to try to get their kid in, and still don’t perform better than the neighborhood school. It’s not always the case - there are some good charters - but so many perform worse than the schools they’re pulling kids from.

A prime example of why certain people pushed so hard to get charter school vouchers covered by state funds. It's a financial scheme disguised as education. It's in the same vein as most for profit prisons; your population is always there legally, and it makes it so easy to make 'legal' kickbacks especially when everyone involved is looking out for each other's backs instead of those populations they serve.

Only when you compare all charters to all traditional public schools.

The flaw in that analysis is that the students going into charters are not coming from all schools, but highly concentrated from the worst schools. Additionally there are a multitude of socio-economic factors that contribute to those students underperforming anywhere they attend, but the comparisons are always made against a broader set of students.

> Parents don’t have a choice when it comes to their money funding a largely unregulated and underperforming industry known as public schools. A new bill could change that.

Fixed that for you

omg thats too funny.

> These charters cost taxpayers obscene amounts of money to educate habitually absent students who graduate after literally doing nothing.

And that's different than many other public schools how?

Your article shows we are 7 th out of 38 countries 16900 per student that’s quite a large sum and they still can’t read or do simple math

So what’s your suggestion?

Jesus said go yell it on a mountain, and that's all those idiots heard

Can't you just take a test to get your ged too?

Our education system is a fat joke.

Bruh, you can cheat your way through highschool 🤡🤣

The state exams are bullshit. At my school, we did not give a single f, just guessed and put down whatever. The school tried to bribe us with ice cream to care.

All I cared about was passing classes, not some dumb state exam.

For those who have to pass these to graduate, God bless.

What I was being teach before the exams barely pertained to it. Teachers just rush taught a review before.

You're so out of touch if you think passing state exam means you got a quality education.

That the PA legislature lets this continue is a disgrace. But they will complain about "waste" in government. And it also helps in the Republican plan to privatize education, along with the EITC program.

Police officers are required to be armed at all times there also required to be ready for duty at a moments notice

Hence the officer although off duty should not be intoxicated at all

But those charges would be brought by interal affairs after any criminal investigation