Gov. Tom Wolf on Aug. 13 unveiled his plan to update what he said was Pennsylvania’s “flawed and outdated charter school law” by promulgating new regulations and proposing legislation to “strengthen charter school quality, accountability and transparency to control costs and improve outcomes for students.”

A Wolf administration statement said brick-and-mortar charter and cyber charter schools, and for-profit companies that manage many of them, are not held to the same ethical and transparency standards of traditional public schools. Despite the rising costs of charter schools to school districts and property taxpayers, school districts and the state government have limited authority to hold charter schools accountable.

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