More school districts are requiring students to pay to participate in sports, according to a survey released today by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Directors Association. The survey found the percentage of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts reporting sports-participation fees grew from 13 percent in 2010 to 38 percent in 2013. The size of the fees has gone up as well. In 2010, the average activity fee was between $5 and $50, growing to $65 in 2012 and $80 in 2013. The response rate for the survey was 37 percent. Of those responding to the survey, 11 percent said they had reduced sports programs because of a lack of money. While some school districts choose fees to make up for funding problems, Todd Hosterman, senior research associate with (via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)