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Families need options: Why school choice is essential to ensuring racial equality
USA Today, Feb. 25, 2021
As Americans, we pride ourselves on an inherent ability to make our own choices and manage our own lives. That self-determination is a foundational tenet of our democracy, something we guard jealously.
Allentown’s Executive Education Academy Charter announces new varsity football program
The Morning Call, Feb.16, 2021
Robert Lysek understands what football means to a school and a young person’s development. Lysek played high school football for Bob Stem and Rich Mazza at Bethlehem Catholic before graduating in 1987 and went on to play college ball at Lock Haven.
I chose a cyber charter school for my daughter and our relationship’s never been better
Education Post, Jan. 29, 2021
We had tried public school and private school, but nothing seemed to work. My daughter was trying so hard as a student, and I was trying so hard as her mom to help her.
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McAllister: Officials Should Embrace, not Attack Public Cyber-charter Schools
Jan. 20, 2021
In March 2020, Gov. Tom Wolf closed Pennsylvania schools because of the pandemic. Ever since, many school districts have struggled with providing effective virtual learning platforms.
Jan. 15, 2021
Olivia Clark-Ortiz of Allentown was allowed to stay up past her bedtime Thursday night to celebrate an important lesson: One person’s fight for change can produce a powerful good that reverberates across her community and the state.
Lenny McAllister: Believe in self-determination? Believe in school choice
Jan. 26, 2021
Sadly, in education, we are failing to live up to that value. Self-determination is not directed by our founding principles when it comes to education in this state. It is instead subject to the Pennsylvania School Code — created in 1949, roughly one decade before Chubby Checker did “The Twist.”
OP-ED: Cyber charter schools are the reassurance every parent, child and taxpayer deserve
Feb. 11, 2021
Since the pandemic began, Pennsylvania’s public cyber charter schools have fielded more than our typical barrage of negativity from school districts and their advocates.
Can We Stop Fighting About Charter Schools?
Feb. 22, 2021
As an education researcher, a writer and a former teacher, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with people all over the country about public schools. And wherever I go, there’s one question I can usually count on being asked: “What do you think about charter schools?”
Support for School Choice Spikes 10 percent among public school families during COVID Shutdown
Sept. 24, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic keeps many schools shuttered and forces parents to consider other options for their children’s education, support for school choice has spiked among parents of children who attend public school.
Cyber Teacher provides tips on how to help you child success while learning online
Sept. 18, 2020
Between spring and now pretty much every family has struggled, at least a little bit, as learning went virtual. The new normal is putting a strain on so many parts of the family dynamic.
How COVID is reshaping education
Sept. 29, 2020
As the pandemic has upended lives and norms, nowhere is the upheaval and uncertainty more pronounced than around the delivery and exercise of education
Educators need to work together to teach children during pandemic
Oct. 8, 2020
Charter schools quickly adapted innovative solutions to learning and meeting the needs of their students. Brick-and-mortar charter schools became community centers for food distribution and health care services.
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Poll: PA parents embrace education choice, study finds
Oct. 9, 2020
Voters in Pennsylvania believe giving parents the power to pick their children’s schools improves the quality of education, and they support publicly funded school choice options as well.