No Cyber Charters Make AYP After ED Overturns Lenient Pennsylvania Standards

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1/24, Niederberger) reports that when the Pennsylvania DOE recalculated charter schools' AYP success rates after ED overruled the attempt to grade them by different standards than were applied to traditional public schools, "the number of charter schools hitting the targets for AYP dropped from 77 to 43. With the recalculation, no cyber charter school in Pennsylvania made AYP. ... The recalculations were ordered in November after federal education officials denied Pennsylvania's request to evaluate charter schools using more lenient standards."