Cyberschools and AYP - Commonwealth Foundation

Lancaster Intelligencer Journal on cyber schools academic performance and area schools.

The article cites our Edifice Complex report– particularly fact about cyber students coming disproportionately from underperforming school districts and from low-income families.

One important fact the article fails to mention is that when a cyber school is failing, or when a child isn’t learning in a cyber school, parents have the option to withdraw and enroll in any of the other 10 cyber schools in the state, or back in the district school. When a district-run school fails AYP, parents aren’t granted such an option (they may have some charters schools in their district, or paying private tuition-charging schools, but public cyber schools are the only schools available and affordable to all residents of the state).

Thus, based on growing enrollment trends, more and more parents consider cyber schools the best option for their kids.