School districts make more than $1 billion in tuition payments to Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools annually. Most of these dollars come from property taxes that are raised at the local level. They are intended to be invested in educating students.

However, thanks to a broken funding formula in Harrisburg and a lack of adequate state oversight, cyber charter schools waste millions of tax dollars every year on things unrelated to educating students.

Each week, we will highlight a different school and new invoices that show how specific cyber charters waste tax dollars. (Spoiler alert: some of these invoices are shocking).

In addition, we compiled the four year cohort graduation rates as well as Pennsylvania State Assessment scores for each featured cyber charter school within post. Be prepared to see some low numbers.  To view a full chart of all Pennsylvania cyber school performances compared to statewide averages, click here.

We now have so many Waste of the Week updates that we had to split them into two pages. Click below to view Weeks 1 – 20 or Weeks 21 – current.