Daily News | What does Pa.’s state budget deal mean for Philly-area K-12 schools?
The post-deadline budget deal reached by Pennsylvania lawmakers includes the biggest education funding increase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s tenure, adding $525 million to the main pot of money for K-12 public schools statewide.
The agreement, which cleared the state Senate Friday and now goes to the governor for final approval, would steer another $225 million to the poorest 100 of Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts — among them Philadelphia — along with other education funding increases. But the new spending falls short of the nearly $2 billion “generational investment” in education that Wolf had pitched when he announced his budget plan earlier this year. And the Democratic governor signaled his agreement this week to other provisions that have been priorities of Republican legislative leaders — including a significant increase in the state’s program funding private school scholarships, and a rollback of new charter school regulations.
The funding increase “shows that many in Harrisburg recognize the depth of the hole our legislative leaders have dug for our students,” said Maura McInerney, legal director at the Education Law Center, which along with the Public Interest Law Center has been representing school districts — including Delaware County’s William Penn — in a caseBut the deal “does not ensure that students in every community can receive the high-quality education they’re entitled to under the state Constitution,”...
Still, the deal was cheered Friday by groups like the Pennsylvania State Education Association. The president of the teachers’ union, Rich Askey, called it a “historic budget that will benefit the students of Pennsylvania,” and credited Wolf with making public education “his No. 1 priority since the day he took office.
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