It looks like public education will be one of the big winners in Pennsylvania’s emerging state budget plan, thanks to Washington D.C. In addition to a $300 million bump in the annual basic education subsidy to K-12 systems – the main unrestricted state appropriation that districts rely on heavily to meet their general budget needs – the 500 public school districts also stand to share in a large slice of the $7.3 billion in federal dollars allocated to Pennsylvania through the American Rescue Plan.

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Source: Penn Live, June 22, 2021.