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PA Budget – Great News for Public Schools!
A huge thank you for everyone’s hard work – it paid off today when Governor Wolf signed the 2022-2023 budget that includes a $525 million increase in Basic Education Funding (allocated using the Fair Funding Formula) and a $225 million increase for Level Up. These two increases will mean more than $59 million in new state…
Read MoreA Zero-Hour State Budget-Related Request
I said the last request was the final one…but this budget season is stretching a little longer – and that’s because the Governor is demanding increases in public education funding! To get these increases passed, it’s essential to reach out yet another time to our local PA Senators, Browne and Scavello, to stress how important these increases are for…
Read MoreHelping the Governor stand strong during budget negotiations
One final request as budget season winds down. We’re hearing rumors that the majority leaders in Harrisburg are lowballing the Governor on the education budget and there are real concerns that the Governor might be willing to cave to their demands. Please contact Governor Wolf’s office to share your interactions with legislators and strongly urge him to hold firm…
Read MoreLearn How Much $ Your School District Would Receive w/Gov. Wolf’s Budget Proposal
from our friends at Education Voters of PA: Pennsylvania ranks 45th in the nation for state share of funding for schools. According to a benchmark in state law, Pennsylvania school districts are underfunded by an eye-popping $4.6 billion each year. When the state is cheap, it puts excessive pressure on property taxes to fund schools.…
Read MoreBack the Budget Surplus to Work for Public Schools
CALL TO ACTION Governor Wolf’s proposed budget would fully implement the Fair Funding Formula and provide additional support so that no district ends up worse off. This would mean nearly $176 million more in state Basic Education Funding support, and over $11 million more in state Special Education Funding, for…
Read MorePa. gets chance to fix broken school funding systems – Letter to the editor
Please take a few minutes to read this and check out this upcoming event https://enewspaper.mcall.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=27e51957-ed75-43c4-9c16-3190d739baea
Read MoreALERT: Oppose Harrisburg’s plan to take hundreds of millions of dollars from our public schools
From Education Voters of PA: On Monday, June 7th, the Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted to advance legislation that would take hundreds of millions of dollars away from students in our local public schools and steer this money into private/religious schools, tax breaks for businesses, and an expansion of unaccountable charter schools. Every year…
Read MoreWEBINAR TOMORROW: State of the PA Budget & Public School Funding
Tomorrow’s Webinar – The PA State Budget and the Generational Opportunity to Fund Public Education Tomorrow, Wednesday, June 9 at noon, we will be joined by the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center Director Marc Stier and Education Voters of Pennsylvania Executive Director Susan Spicka to talk about how state legislators have the opportunity to make a bold investment…
Read MoreJoin for a quick update on Harrisburg’s plans for public education
From Education Voters of PA, don’t miss out on this opportunity today. Over the next month, PA lawmakers and Governor Wolf will be negotiating a budget that is supposed to be signed into law by June 30th. What happens over the next month could have a profound impact on Pennsylvania’s educational landscape. And lawmakers appear to…
Read More2021-2022 BASD Budget – Explained
Recently, we posted the approved 2021-2022 BASD General Fund Budget. Below is a follow-up explanation shared with us as well. At the moment, the Bethlehem Area School District is looking at a gap of roughly $7.7 million between revenues and expenses in our 2021-2022 Budget. We expect to cover about half of that amount with…
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