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The bill would bolster disclosure requirements regarding cyber charters’ policies, instructional materials and budgets.It would bar the state Education Department from approving any additional cyber charter schools through the 2029-30 school year. A new Cyber Charter School Funding and Policy Council would be set up to make recommendations concerning enrollment, governance and funding.

During floor debate Wednesday, Rep. Martina White, a Philadelphia Republican, said the measure will “close real schools, displace real students, strip families of the very choices that they depend on to give their children a chance at success.”The moratorium would be highly damaging to cyber charters, said Rep. Craig Williams, a Delaware County Republican.“You limit the number of cyber charters now in existence, you choke off its funding, and eventually you can kill cyber charter. Sixty-plus thousand students in our school system, finding another way to learn, and we’re going to choke it off with this bill,” Williams said.

The chair of the House Education Committee, Lehigh County Democratic Rep. Peter Schweyer, enumerated cyber charter spending issues raised in the auditor general’s, including staff bonuses, gift cards, vehicle payments and fuel stipends.

“Gift cards?” Schweyer asked his colleagues. “We would all get in trouble if we were taking gift cards as part of our compensation.”

Leaders of existing public cyber charter schools say the measure would cut their funding by about $450 million or more across the state, with a third of the total reductions targeting special education student reimbursements.Under the 2023 Women’s Reservation Bill, a third of those seats will be set aside for women.

The Indian census is said to be the largest peacetime mobilization in the world.Almost 2.7 million people were hired to implement the 2011 census, visiting more than 240 million households.

The Home Ministry said the new census will be carried out in two phases and conclude by March 1, 2027. The government will spell out the details and schedule of the exercise later this month.They’ll collect information about houses and their occupants, such as sex, age, marital status, religion, mother tongue, language, literacy and economic activity — as well as caste.