Posted on 11/15/2004 9:23:00 AM PST by crushelits
So to whom does the school district write a check when this educational option is used?
Do you think the district reduced taxes by that much? Maybe they should look into home based computer for more of their students and pass the savings onto the good people of Penn Hills.
The cyber charter school - which may be a non-profit or a private enterprise. Some school districts in PA have gotten smart and "invested" in cyber charter schools, so they get back a piece of the dough.
It's the law.
How could it possibly be that much??
"If the story is true."
Yes, IF it is true. I suspect it is true though ... . Politicains OFTEN see themselvesas being above the law and looking for loopholes. It's not a Republican thing or a Demoncrat thing - it seems to go with the job.
Give it a rest, lady, I'm sure your kids aren't lacking for anything.
I'm a PA resident who has a child enrolled in a cyber charter school. I am also a prolife Christian who has great admiration for Rick (except for his recent snuggling up wirh Specter) This issue has been in the Pittsburgh papers for several days and now appears to be going national.
Regardless of whether this is a partisan attack or not, Rick is wrong on this and needs to correct it immediately. He bought a two bedroom house in Penn Hills several years ago for about $100,000. Since he has 6 kids it is obvious neither he nor his family live there. It was purchased simply to have a PA home for appearances and voting reasons.
It's simply not right to use tax proceeds of a school district where you don't live. It's also is a political problem that he's going to get hammered about in 2006 if he doesn't do something quickly. This is a middle class racially mixed community. A guy making 150K plus siphoning this tax money will not play well in Western PA.
"My reaction is that this is a politically motivated smear. The rest of the article does nothing to dispell that reaction."
Your "reaction" should be based on the ISSUE raised whether it is "politically motivated" or not. For you, nothing may "dispell" your "reaction" since you are a blind partisan hack.
Thanks for that information, Glenn.
"Santorum is just another politicians, do as I say not as I do."
It;s certainly beginning to sound that way and blind partisans don't want to see that. They are as dusgusting as Santorum is.
How many kid's are enrolled? I doubt it's just Santorum's.
If he sent them to school in VA public schools, he'd have to declare his residence there, thus becoming ineligible to be a PA Senator.
That's why he's not wrong. We should appreciate government workers who know what it's like to raise a family.
Post 62 has one possible calculation. The Santorums do have a lot of kids. However, when you compare a public school's "cost" to what it would cost to send the same children to an ordinary (rather than a "prestigious") private school, you find there's a remarkable discrepancy, and that higher costs consistently produce lower results. It's quite a mystery :-).
Baloney.
He doesn't send his kids to public school. His children are homeschooled. This amount of money is probably what his district subsidizes to homeschooled children. We're talking about 3 school years and at least 5 kids. To be honest, it doesn't seem like all that much to me. That's at most $20,000 over 3 years per child, or less than $7,000 per child, per year. The school district would be lucky if they could school all their kids for that.
Only because of Philadelphia.
Alot of Suburban Philadlephia "Republicans" changed there registration to vote for Rendell... They were labelled "Rendellicans" by the media.
Bob Casey Jr. won everywhere in the Primary except Southeast PA. Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lehigh, Montgomery, Philadelphia. Southeast/Philadelphia corner that is in love with Rendlel.
Casey stomped him everywhere else.. Pittsburgh, Scranton, Erie, Williamsport, Harrisburg.
In areas Bush won by 60-40 here in PA.. Casey will lose them by only single digits against Santorum, and Casey will be the next Senator from Pennsylvania if he wants the job.
If Sen. Santorum's kids are in public schools in VA, then PA shouldn't be paying anything. If he is homeschooling, however, PA allows for h/sing families to take advantage of online courses, and provides computers, etc. for the students' use. Look at the time frame, though. That's four years of schooling for at least 4 of his children. That's an average of $5,500 per child, which is about on par for what the PA schools pay for public school kids. This money isn't going to Santorum and his family, it's what the schools charge for the education of PA kids.
"So should OTHERS live ELSE WHERE while a school district in another state FUNDS the internet access?
He's pro family as well as a crook. This is wrong.
Allot of people have Dads that travel however they don't expect school districts in another state to hook up internet access for their schools..
I prefer he NOT look for loopholes at the expense of others. I prefer that he send his kids to schools WHERE HE LIVES - like every one else.
It may very well be true that this is politically motivated BUT what he is doing is BLATENTLY WRONG."
His children are enrolled in an Internet school within the school district corresponding to his PA residency. What's wrong with that?
In fact, he is paying taxes in both PA and VA. However, he is only using the schools in one of the 2 locations. Are you suggesting that he only pay school taxes in VA and that PA not require him to pay school taxes?
While we're at it, what about all of the taxpayers that are paying school taxes that don't even have kids or are paying those taxes in addition to tuition to send their kids to private schools?
The real solution here is school vouchers which would then let the Senator, the other families you mention with a traveling Dad and all the rest of us have freedom to send our kids to school where it makes the most sense and best preserve family life. Santorum would be all for that.
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