Education Funding in 2009-10 State Budget

October 22, 2009

Governor Ed Rendell and the General Assembly agreed to a 2009-10 budget that honors and improves the school funding formula adopted last year and provides a $300 million increase in the basic education subsidy for school districts.

The budget agreement uses a total of $654.7 million in federal stimulus funds to support the school subsidy in 2009-10. In addition to the $300 million increase over last year, $354.7 million of federal funds is used to replace a reduction in state funds for the subsidy.

Read a statement from the Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign on the budget.