Gov. Tom Corbett.
HARRISBURG PA – One day before Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett gives his first budget address, the state House is already moving on one of his proposals. Its Appropriations Committee on Monday (March 7, 2011) approved a bill to cut $337 million from the state’s basic education subsidy for school districts, replacing it with $387 million in federal stimulus funds, according to The Pennsylvania Independent online news service.
Officials in the Pottsgrove School District and elsewhere had originally counted on the stimulus funds to be an addition to, and not a replacement for, the state money. Pottsgrove’s 2011-2012 preliminary budget of $58.5 million currently includes a deficit of almost $1.5 million.
Corbett will issue his budget address today (Tuesday, March 8) in Harrisburg.
- Read a story about the education cut, written by Reporter Eric Boehm and published today by The Independent, here.
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