Are Cyber Elementary Schools Coming to New York?
“In school systems with high levels of poverty and ‘hard to educate’ Black and Latino students, cyber schools are on the rise. They are a more cost-effective option for cash-strapped systems given that they reduce the number of teachers needed, and in some cases, there are no buildings to maintain, heating or cooling costs to pay, or administrative and service staff to hire. Though seemingly cost-effective, these schools are often a separate and unequal form of education that fails to adequately educate some of the country’s neediest students.”