November 22, 2021 7:32 pm

NEPA educators question cyber charter spending of pandemic relief money on gift cards, cellphones

Published by Anne Schmidt

Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools used federal COVID-19 relief funds to purchase technology and cleaning supplies and send Target gift cards and phones to families.

Many of the expenditures, revealed through Right to Know Law requests by The Sunday Times, have traditional public school educators questioning why cyber charter schools require the funding when their students already learn from home.