No he wasn't. No on is ENTITLED to other taxpayers' money. He should put his kids in the school in VIRGINIA, where he owned and lived all around the year in a $2 million mansion. Because he wasn't entitled to Penn Hill district money, and because at he was a (R)Senator under a (R)admin., the Department of Education tried to patch up the dispute, and in 2008 paid the Penn Hills district a sum of $55,000 (from taxpayers' money) to close the case. Santorum himself refused to reimburse a cent.
That is the law, if you don't like the state law, work to change that law. He was entitled to that money as anyone else who lived there would be.
I am sorry that your personal bias and jealousy won't allow you to understand the simple fact that he was allowed to get that money and he chose to use it for a cyber education school instead of a local public school. That was the choice he and his wife made. It is called freedom of choice and doesn't only include the right to kill unborn children.
He refused to pay it because he didn't owe it. What the Republicans and the Dept. of Education choose to do is on them. As a legal resident, HE WAS ALLOWED THE MONEY! If Penn Hills and the Pittsburgh Pack of Garbage wanted to get the money back they should have taken legal actions. They didn't, BECAUSE they know they would have lost the case.
It is black and white law, He was a legal resident, whether you like it or not, he was entitled to the money and he took advantage of that entitlement.