PA Plan for using Stimulus funds in education

Posted by on April 13, 2009

State issues plan for education stimulus funds

The Rendell Administration plans to use $418 million of the state fiscal stabilization dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in school districts’ basic education subsidy allocations for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

The funding will replace the governor’s original budget proposal, which sought to use $300 million in state funds for basic education next year.

The $418 million in stabilization dollars will allow the Commonwealth to maintain its commitment to close school districts’ funding gaps by the 2013-14 fiscal year by providing Pennsylvania with much-needed dollars as the funds originally proposed by the governor are needed to close other budget holes.

For more information on how the state will use the stimulus funds for education, click here.

http://www.pdeinfo.state.pa.us/education_budget/lib/education_budget/StimulusGuide.pdf