Look local paper in Penn Hills broke the stoyr first. Btw, scuttlebutt is Barbara Hafer (former Repub) may be run against him. She does have statewide name recognition. Bet this story pops up in the '06 campaign. Ricky needs to get wise and pay now for his kids own tution. I don't have a source but hear he bragged his kids were better-behaved than the kids who have to attend public school.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_269995.htmlThe Penn Hills School District has spent more than $100,000 in local tax money on cyber charter school tuition for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's children, though he and his family spend most of the year in Virginia.
Santorum has had at least three of his six children enrolled in a cyber charter school since the 2001-02 school year, district records show. Santorum owns a home in Penn Hills and pays about $2,000 annually in property taxes to the district, but primarily lives in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Herndon, Va.
Five of the senator's children, Elizabeth, 13; Richard, 11; Daniel, 9; Sarah, 6; and Peter, 5, are enrolled at the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland, Beaver County.
The children all are registered in the Penn Hills School District, which is required by state law to pay cyber charter tuition costs for all students who live in the district -- about $38,000 this year for Santorum's children, according to district records.
"This is his residence, so I guess this is where he will charge his cyber bills to," said Penn Hills school board member Sara Werner. "I don't know that I totally agree because he could put his children in a Catholic school or other private school."