Dr. Bradley Landis
POTTSTOWN PA – A comparison of the Pennsylvania Department of Education‘s 2009-2010 actual, 2010-2011 available, and 2011-2012 potential appropriations for education – the last reflecting budget proposals announced Tuesday (March 8, 2010) by Gov. Tom Corbett – is being circulated by the Pottsgrove School District, along with a letter from Superintendent Dr. Bradley Landis that briefly addresses how state funding cuts affect Pottsgrove.
A five-page grid that also shows the dollar and percentage amounts of increase or decrease between current funding and Corbett’s recommendations accompanies Landis’ one-page letter. They are available together as a download from the district’s website, here.
Pottsgrove’s budget architect, Business Administrator David Nester, anticipated some state monetary losses and built them into the district’s $58.5 million preliminary 2011-2012 spending plan, approved last month by its Board of School Directors.
“What we did not expect,” Landis wrote in his letter dated Wednesday (March 9), were additional cuts of $400,612 in Accountability Block Grants, which pay for the district’s full-time kindergarten program; $327,000 in charter school enrollment reimbursements, and $10,000 in dual enrollment reimbursements for students who simultaneously attend high school and college courses. Consequently, Landis said, the district currently faces a $2 million preliminary budget deficit.
“In order to balance the budget it will be necessary to find other revenues or reduce expenses further,” Landis wrote.
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