Pa. Senator’s Residency at Issue in Charter Row

Santorums Withdraw Children Following Questions About District-Financed Tuition

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has withdrawn five of his children from a cyber charter school, following a barrage of stories in home-state newspapers challenging the propriety of schooling them at state taxpayers’ expense when his family lives most of the year in a Washington suburb.

Pennsylvania’s 2002 charter school law allows students who reside anywhere in the state to attend one of about a dozen online charter schools. The law requires that the school district in which the students reside pay their tuition to the cyber charter.

Mr. Santorum’s children spend approximately 100 days every year in Pennsylvania, he said in a Nov. 19 radio interview on the issue. The senator, a Republican, claims residency in Penn Hills, a municipality of about 47,000 people outside Pittsburgh, where he and his wife have owned...