Conestoga Valley School District has a virtual academy in which about 20 students go through an online course of instruction.
But many more district students are enrolled in similar cyber charter schools for which the district annually spends $500,000. Now, district officials are looking at a plan to get more students to enroll in its own cyber school and recoup some of those costs.
Currently, 49 students in the Conestoga Valley School District are enrolled in state-certified cyber charter schools, for which the district must pay roughly $8,700 per student. Yet at the Conestoga Valley Virtual Academy, yearly costs max out around $5,200.
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