内容摘要：to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana, though

to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana, though

“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.

A Democratic analysis put the figure at more than $600 million.About 65,000 Pennsylvania students currently attend the state’s 14 public cyber charter schools, which are public, nonprofit corporations. They do not have to follow all of the requirements mandated of public schools under state law.

Cyber charter school are considered independent public schools, approved to operate with a “charter” issued by the Education Department. They use technology to provide much of the teaching. Students usually do not need to attend a physical location beyond certain events, such as standardized testing.

The proposal was sent over to the Republican majority state Senate for its consideration. The bill becomes part of a wider negotiations to determine the budget before lawmakers recess for the summer.Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities arrested a man they say collaborated with the bomber of ain May, alleging that he supplied chemicals used to make explosives and traveled to California to experiment with them in the bomber’s garage months before the attack.

The two men connected in fringe online forums over their shared beliefs against human procreation, authorities told reporters Wednesday. The blast gutted theand shattered the windows of nearby buildings, with officials calling the attack terrorism and possibly the largest bomb scene ever in Southern California. The clinic was closed, and no embryos were damaged.