Santorum cyber school case continues

Pennsylvania tax-payers are still trying to figure out, or at least paying lawyers to figure out, whether Senator Rick Santorum did anything inappropriate by having his kids use Penn Hills School District cash to access an online charter school while the family lived in Virginia.

Santorum and his wife, Karen, removed their children from the cyber school last fall after questions were raised about their residency. At the time, Santorum said they would home-school their children, which they had done previously.

The Santorums own a Penn Hills home but spend most of their time at a home they own in Virginia.

Under state law, a school district must pay a fee set by the state for each resident who attends a charter school.

I'm no fan of Santorum, but it seems fair that if school money comes from property taxes, and the family owns a house in the county, it shouldn't matter where the kids access their online charter school from.