Latest Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School Stories
MIDLAND, Pa., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School took top school honors among 450 participating schools in the Northeast U.S. in an online math competition. Individually, two PA Cyber students placed second and third among 14,600 participants. Over 1,000 PA Cyber students in grades 4-8 participated in the 48-hour online VMath Live Northeast Region Mania Math Challenge Oct. 14-15, (Northeast VMath Live rankings). Two sixth-grade PA Cyber students placed in...
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to enrollment growth, the state's largest cyber charter school is moving into larger regional offices in both Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The expansions will house added staff and provide space for more on-site services for students and families. Based in Western Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (www.pacyber.org) expects a statewide enrollment of 9,000, an increase of a thousand students over last year,...
MIDLAND, Pa., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former U.S. Secretary of Education came away impressed with his first look at PA Cyber Charter School and Lincoln Interactive (www.lincolninteractive.com) online curriculum. "I'm so proud of what you have done and are doing here. This is a time when we really need to be looking at new and better ways of doing things," said Richard W. Riley after touring PA Cyber headquarters (www.pacyber.org) Aug. 19. The story of how rustbelt steel town...
MIDLAND, Pa., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world has changed and America's kids need a high-tech education. On Wednesday, Aug. 19, former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley will visit the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (www.pacyber.org) and related innovative educational entities. Riley will be joined by elected officials to see firsthand the benefits of online education and meet cyber teachers. "The world changes and education has to meet those changes and lead. Nine...
MIDLAND, Pa., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PA Cyber Charter School will provide host sites in western Pennsylvania and Harrisburg on the evening of Thursday, Aug. 20, for an interactive teleconference to teach people how to start their own charter school. The 14th annual "How to Start a Charter School" is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coalition of Charter Schools (www.pachartercoalition.com). The conference is to originate at Drexel University in Philadelphia, according to Lawrence...
BEAVER, Penn., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Network of Digital Schools (NNDS) today announced that there are now more than 200 school districts, charter schools and cyber charter schools in 11 different states using its cutting-edge online Lincoln Interactive Curriculum."The digital age we are living in today has dramatically expanded the opportunities we have to bring lessons to life for students, whether it's dynamic cutting edge science lessons, gaming simulations that enable...
GIBSONIA, Pa., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a benefit for the Samuel Hicks Memorial Fund, a special performance of the classic ballet "The Nutcracker" will be performed at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, at Pine-Richland High School Auditorium. The performance is presented by the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center (www.lppac.org) of Midland, Pa. FBI Special Agent Hicks was shot and killed during a drug raid Nov. 19, 2008. His widow, Brooke, and son, Noah, 2, reside in the Pine-Richland...
LIGONIER, Pa., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Anna Hanley, a senior in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, has been named a Commended Student in the 2009 National Merit Scholarship Program. Hanley is recognized as one of the 34,000 students throughout the nation who scored in the top 5 percent of the 1.5 million students who took the 2007 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. A daughter of Joanne and Matthew Hanley of Ligonier, Hanley plans to enter college to study...
By Erin Moody, The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Jul. 14--Tenth-grader Qiuandra Taylor of Plymouth gets to chew gum in class, but she doesn't show off her brown-and-tan plaid backpack covered with pockets. Sometimes school starts at noon, and sometimes it starts at 2 p.m. She doesn't have to wait in long lines for lunch like her former classmates do at Wyoming Valley West High School, because the kitchen is about 10 feet away. Taylor is one of the increasing number of Luzerne...
