Thank you for the editorial on cyber charter funding (“Cyber charter reform needs to be about education, not politics,” July 23, TribLIVE). That reform is long, long overdue. Few taxpayers understand that cybers aren’t “free,” as ads have claimed, but rather that their property taxes are paying for a “shadow” school district whose spending is opaque and whose academic success is abysmal.
I hope your editorial gets voters to raise some questions to their representatives and, even more, to their senators. Given the contretemps over vouchers, Sens. Kim Ward and Joe Pittman, our locals, can’t be counted on to support the House bill to adjust cyber funding and operation. My guess is that it will never even get a vote. Sigh … .
Helen Sitler
Ligonier