May 10th, 2010
From The Patriot News:
Pennsylvania Senate Republican leaders sent out a letter to superintendents advising them to exercise caution when developing their school district budgets for next year.
They urged them not to count on Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed $5.9 billion — a $354 million increase — in basic education funding to support district operations in his 2010-11 state budget proposal released in February, because the state’s financial position has changed since then.
Among those changes are a projected $1 billion-plus revenue shortfall expected this year and nearly $850 million in federal welfare funding that the governor put in his budget that still awaits congressional approval.
“Understand there is no guaranteed level of funding for school districts or any other entity in the commonwealth in the 2010-11 state budget,” the letter states.
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