Committee hears plea to support statewide $8,000 cyber‑school tuition cap; administration says district would save about $2.2 million

Chief Financial Officer Stephen Skrocki used the committee meeting to urge board members and residents to press state lawmakers to adopt a flat $8,000 per‑student tuition rate for cyber charter schools, a proposal he said would save North Penn approximately $2.2 million annually.

Skrocki told the committee the district currently pays roughly $17,000 for a regular-education student enrolled in a cyber charter school and that a statewide $8,000 rate has been proposed before. He said cyber schools’ large fund balances and recent purchases of brick‑and‑mortar buildings illustrated to him a lack of alignment between current tuition and operating costs. The committee discussed a $390,000 “cyber transition” payment the district received this year (a one‑time item not proposed in the governor’s 2025–26 budget).

Why it matters: Administration framed the issue as a substantial budgetary pressure—reducing cyber tuition to $8,000 would provide meaningful budget relief for North Penn—and urged outreach to state representatives. Several committee members described student‑achievement metrics at some cyber schools as weak and said that combination of high tuition and low outcomes strengthened the case for statutory reform.

Ending: The committee asked members and the public to contact legislators; administration said the governor’s proposed budget does not include the one‑time cyber transition funds for next year.