Editor’s note : This is the seventh story in a series titled “Virtual Dominance: How a cyber charter school has upended K-12 education in Pa.” The series investigates the causes and consequences of the unprecedented growth of Commonwealth Charter Academy–Pa.’s fastest growing school.

Cyber school boards are frequently not as transparent as local school boards, Kevin Busher, the Pennsylvania School Boards Association testified during a hearing of the Pa. House Education Committee in May.

“Their board meetings are often not widely advertised, agendas not publicly available, and information can be difficult to find,” he said.

PennLive analyzed some of the basic transparency practices of Pa.’s cyber charter schools and found this was true for the two largest cyber schools.

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