PASBO Survey of Projected Property Tax Increases

According to a PASBO survey in which approximately 100 PA school districts responded: 15 project no increase in property taxes 18 project increases below the Act 1 Index 26 project increases at the Act 1 Index 39 are applying for an exemption to increase taxes above the Act 1 Index Do you know what your [...]

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Charter Choices Hires Payroll Specialist

Charter Choices has created and hired the position of Payroll Specialist. Our newest employee, Alicia Koniecki started today, October 11. We believe that having an employee dedicated to payroll issues will enhance our customer service and responsiveness to payroll issues. Alicia comes to us with vast payroll and charter school experience. If you don’t know [...]

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PIMS Services Offered

Charter Choices Announces the Addition of PIMS Services Charter Choices is pleased to announce that they now provide comprehensive PIMS reporting services to our clients. We are excited to expand our scope of back office support services with this increasingly unpopular reporting requirement. Charter Choices will manage all aspects of reporting and ensuring compliance with [...]

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A new great resource for PA charter schools

Charter School tools is a highly recommended resource

The Charter Choices team is always looking for the best resources to recommend to our clients. We recently found a site we think offers a range of helpful resources for charter school boards and administrators as well as those that are in the process of developing a new [...]

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Philadelphia school district budget proposal 2011-12

A gloomy financial forecast was reported at the 2011-2012 budget proposal meeting of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission – April 27, 2011 At last nights’s marathon meeting of the School Reform Commission, Michael Masch, Philadelphia school district’s Chief Financial Officer, laid out several harsh facts that support the suggestions made in the district’s budget proposal [...]

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Changes to charter school authorization in PA?

Governor Corbett’s new budget proposal and updates to the charter school law proposed in Senate Bill 904 by State Senators Piccola and Williams may allow innovative charter schools to more positively impact education practices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the very few months during which newly elected Governor Corbett has held office, he has [...]

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Charter Choices Moves Into New Home

We are proud to announce that Charter Choices has recently moved into its new home in suburban, Glenside, PA, just 2 miles north of the northwest Philadelphia border in Abington Township. Our comfortable new offices have enabled us to increase our efficiency as opportunities for inter-office communication is substantially enhanced over that of our previous [...]

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