Did Santorum bilk Pennsylvania taxpayers out of $100,000..........

[Lincoln Republican]

..........for his children's home schooling, as they were living in Virginia at the time and not Pennsylvania?

According to this article he did.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/rick-santorums-homeschooling-cost-the-pa-tax-paye

Pennsylvania state law requires any school district to pay for the education of children who live within their district, but attend cyber schools. Santorum, although living in Leesburg, Virginia with his family, claimed residency in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. The cost of the educating Santorum’s children in Virginia ran the Penn Hills School District a bill just over $100,000.

Oh that Rick.

[Keystone Phil]

Wow, thank you for breaking this story, Winny.

Hey, does anyone else hear about this rumor that Rick lost re-election in a landslide? If it's true, can you post stories to verify? Also, what's this I hear about men and dogs...

[Fuzzybigfoot]

Why can't you two be friends? 

[Napoleon]

Why can't you two be friends? 

[J. J.]

Wow, I just went back in time to 2004. 

This story has been around for a while.  As far as I can determine, there was nothing improper in Santorum's actions.

[Lincoln Republican]

I know this story has been around for years, however,  it has not been discussed on this forum, at least not lately.

And I do not consider it appropriate, nor legitimate, nor honest, nor legal, for someone living in Virginia and claiming Pennsylvania residency, to have the Pennsylvania taxpayers pick up the tab, in this case approximately $100,000 for their kids home schooling, when Pennsylvania law requires actual residency in Pennsylvania in order for the cost of home schooling to be covered by Pennsylvania.  

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.ca/2012/02/how-rick-santorum-home-schooled-his.html

How Rick Santorum home-schooled his children
From Andrew O'Hehir's Home Schooling blog at Salon:

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is probably “the most prominent home-schooler in America.” Indeed, the fact that Santorum’s seven kids have largely been educated at home (two of them are now adults) is a key aspect of Santorum’s appeal to his right-wing base...

In a recent Ohio speech, for instance, Santorum described the predominant model of public education as an artifact of the Industrial Revolution that has become ill-suited to a post-industrial age: “People came off the farms where they did home-school or had a little neighborhood school, and into these big factories … called public schools.”..

As various media outlets from Mother Jones to the Washington Post have reminded us in recent weeks, Santorum’s record as a home-schooler is ambiguous at the very least, and arguably hypocritical. From 2001 through at least 2004, when Santorum was serving in the  and living full-time in Loudoun County, Va., five of his children were enrolled in an online charter school based in Pennsylvania — a public school, albeit an unusual one — with computers, curricula and other educational services provided at taxpayer expense. According to the Penn Hills Progress, a newspaper in Santorum’s suburban Pittsburgh hometown that broke the story at the time, the local school district had spent approximately $100,000 educating the senator’s so-called home-schooled children, although they lived neither in the district nor in the state...

Appearing to live in Pennsylvania was distinctly advantageous for the Santorums, because state law required school districts to pay 80 percent of the online charter-school tuition for local families who chose it... In other words, the Santorums presented themselves to the world as home-schoolers for at least three years, while Pennsylvania taxpayers picked up the bill for their kids’ education — and they actually lived in a different state. For a private citizen, this would have been an embarrassing ethical lapse, but somewhat short of criminal misconduct. For a politician whose reputation rests upon issues of character and integrity, it’s considerably more damning.

[Torie]

Sometimes less might be more Winfield. Just a thought.

[Lincoln Republican]

Sometimes less might be more Winfield. Just a thought.

True, but in the face of derision and skepticism, it was necessary to prove my point. 

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Santorum voted for the Iraq war, which bilked taxpayers out of $1 trillion.