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Pennsylvania Cyber Students Thrive—No Thanks to Governor Shapiro

• Jay Stooksberry
• July 15, 2025

Originally published by The Pottstown-Mercury. As an elementary student, Luke Downs struggled to read.   “I would cry when I read,” says Luke. “And [my school] didn’t…

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Charter Schools Senate Hearing: Giving Parents Options Should Not Be Optional

• Colleen Hroncich
• October 22, 2019

Do charter schools work? That was the focus of a Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee hearing today. The 3-hour meeting featured five different panels discussing various aspects of charter schools…

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West Virginia Leaves Students Without Options

• Colleen Hroncich
• February 19, 2019

Last month, hundreds of students gathered at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School outside of Pittsburgh to celebrate National School Choice Week. With music, dance acts, and peppy speakers, participants…

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The Truth on Cyber School Performance

• Priya Brannick
• June 28, 2013

Here is a letter to the editor I submitted to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Pennsylvania cyber school performance: Mary Niederberger reports on a new, largely positive charter school study…

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Burger Flipper or National Merit Scholar?

• June 27, 2013

Mechanicsburg student Colin Knott is a National Merit Scholar—putting him in the top one percent of students nationwide—and already has 25 college credits under his belt prior to his first…

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Cyber School Funding in Pennsylvania

• Elizabeth Stelle, Priya Brannick
• May 30, 2013

Cyber schools currently spend significantly less per student than school districts and only represent about 1% of spending on public education. Discrepancies in cyber school funding are the result of…

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Cyber Proposal Undermines Cherished School Option

• Priya Brannick
• January 29, 2013

The Matunis girls are just two of some 32,000 students statewide who are thriving at cyber schools.  New legislation unveiled in Harrisburg, however, could do serious damage to cyber…

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Happy Digital Learning Day

• Priya Brannick
• February 1, 2012

Today is national Digital Learning Day, during which groups across the country will commemorate how technology is changing education for the better. So what exactly IS digital learning? Digital…

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The Learning Revolution

• Nathan Benefield, Priya Brannick
• October 10, 2011

Online learning serves a significant and growing number of students, and represents a significant shift in how we educate Pennsylvania's children.  In light of the growth of cyber and hybrid…

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