In his 17 years as executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials, Jay Himes can’st recall a time of bigger cuts in education than last year and the current year.  “I can’st think of anything even close,” he said, commenting on a survey released Monday on the impact.
The electronic survey, done by PASBO and the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators in August, was answered by 264 of the state’ss 500 school districts.

More than $900 million in public school funding was reduced in 2011-12, largely as a result of the end of the federal economic stimulus.
That money was not restored in the 2012-13 state budget.

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