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Edited on Wed Jul-13-05 11:15 AM by Skinner
This morning the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did a fine job on clarifying yesterday's ruling on Santorum's Penn Hills residency and taking Virginia Rick to task.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
" Are students who live in another state residents of Pennsylvania for education purposes and should Pennsylvania taxpayers fund their schooling? The ruling in the Santorum residency case said less than the U.S. senator claimed but more than the Penn Hills School District bargained for.
Barry Kramer, deputy general counsel and hearing officer for the Pennsylvania of Department of Education, ruled Friday that the Penn Hills School District was late in challenging the residency of the five children of Rick and Karen Santorum who were enrolled in the online Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School. Although the Santorum family spends most of the time in their home in Leesburg, Va., they claim residence in the house they own in Penn Hills.
As students with a Penn Hills home address, their public educations are the obligation of Penn Hills taxpayers -- at a cost of somewhere between $34,000, which the senator said covered the children for two school years, and $67,000, which some school district members said was paid to the cyber school.
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To my thinking, if Icky Ricky wanted to get out from under this, he would have returned the money and graciously apologized to the community. Instead, he knowingly cheats the Penn Hills residents, violates the residency requirements, and laughs in their collective faces over the outcome. This from our upstanding righteous "family values" senator.
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