Pennsylvania Statutes Title 24 P.S. Education § 17-1725.1-A. Funding for cyber charter schools

(a) There shall be no tuition charge for a resident or nonresident student attending a cyber charter school.

(b) Notwithstanding section 1725-A(a)(2) and (3),  1 per-student funding amounts for non-special education students and special education students attending a cyber charter school shall be calculated in accordance with this section and shall be paid by the school district of residence of each student.

(c) Effective January 1, 2025, through the end of the 2024-2025 school year, for special education students, a cyber charter school shall receive for each student enrolled the lesser of:

(d) For the 2024-2025 school year, the monthly payments for July through December for special education students shall be based upon the rate calculated under section 1725-A(a)(3) and the monthly payments for January through June for special education students shall be based upon the rate calculated in subsection (c).

(e) For the 2025-2026 school year and each school year thereafter, for non-special education students, a cyber charter school shall receive for each student enrolled an amount calculated as follows:

(f) For the 2025-2026 school year and each school year thereafter, for special education students, a cyber charter school shall receive for each student enrolled the lesser of:

(g) Notwithstanding section 1725-A(a)(5), payments shall be made to the cyber charter school in twelve (12) equal monthly payments, by the fifth day of each month, within the operating school year.  A student enrolled in a cyber charter school shall be included in the average daily membership of the student's school district of residence for the purpose of providing basic education funding payments and special education funding pursuant to Article XXV.  If a school district fails to make a payment to a cyber charter school as prescribed in this subsection, the secretary shall deduct the estimated amount, as documented by the cyber charter school using the most recently available per-student amounts posted under section 1725-A(a)(7), from any and all State payments made to the district after receipt of documentation from the cyber charter school.  The secretary shall not make a deduction on behalf of a cyber charter school unless the documentation from the cyber charter school uses the per-student amount that is posted under section 1725-A(a)(7).  No later than October 1 of each year, a cyber charter school shall submit to the school district of residence of each student final documentation of payment to be made using the per-student amounts posted under section 1725-A(a)(7) and the average daily membership for the students enrolled in the cyber charter school from the school district for the previous school year.  If a school district fails to make payment to the cyber charter school, the secretary shall deduct and pay the amount as documented by the cyber charter school using the per-student amounts posted under section 1725-A(a)(7) from any and all State payments made to the school district after receipt of documentation from the cyber charter school from the appropriations for the fiscal year in which the final documentation of payment was submitted to the school district of residence.

(h) Notwithstanding section 1725-A(a)(6), not later than thirty (30) days after the secretary makes the deduction described in subsection (g), a school district may notify the secretary that the deduction made from State payments to the school district under this subsection is inaccurate.  The secretary shall provide the school district with an opportunity to be heard concerning whether the cyber charter school documented that its students were enrolled in the cyber charter school, the period of time during which each student was enrolled, the school district of residence of each student and whether the amounts deducted from the school district were accurate.