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(126,249 posts)How the public-school-loathing GOP candidate used Pennsylvania’s taxpayer dollars to school his kids in Virginia.
STEPHANIE MENCIMER
JAN. 4, 2012 9:00 PM
... Santorum .. campaigned on the fact that his seven kids have been home-schooled ... Santorum .. appeared at a handful of home-schooling conferences ...
... Between 2001 and 2004, that online school allowed the Santorum family to live in Virginia, while sticking Pennsylvania taxpayers with a $100,000 bill.
In 2004 .. news broke that he was no longer residing in the state that sent him to Congress and was living instead .. in Leesburg, Virginia. Santorum owned .. a house in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, next door to his in-laws ... But after Santorum got elected to the Senate in 1994, he bought a much larger home in Virginia that would accommodate his ever-growing family. Some relatives moved into the Penn Hills house, but Santorum continued to use it to claim residency in Pennsylvania, where he voted by absentee ballot.
... Nor did the Santorums simply home-school the kids. Instead .. they enrolled five of their kids in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, based out of tiny Beaver County, Pennsylvania ... When Santorum enrolled his kids there, the local school district in Penn Hills was forced to pick up the tab for the cyber school, which cost the district $38,000 a year for the Santorum children ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/rick-santorums-school-scandal/
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