Gov. Tom Wolf’s bold and aggressive effort to help Pennsylvania’s school districts has wound up making life more complicated for the administrators who run them. An injection of this kind of money has superintendents dreaming big dreams, much like those lottery players have when the Powerball jackpot grows to 10 figures. The governor’s 2021-22 budget proposal calls for a $1.35 billion increase – the largest proposed increase in state history – for basic education. That would bump the total to $8.1 billion. In addition, he is proposing $200 million for special education, which would push the state funding for this budget line to nearly $1.4 billion. But Wolf isn’t just proposing an influx of new cash. He also proposes a different funding formula to more equitably distribute the money among the 500 school districts.

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Source: PennLive, Feb. 16, 2021. (Subscription may be required.)