A huge WIN for OUR SCHOOLS!
Pocono Mountain School District will receive an additional $1.2 million through the BEF Fair Funding Formula (a 4.5% increase), and an additional $647,790 in Special Education Funding (a 8.4% increase), $2,281,225 in Adequacy Funding (a 6.5% increase), and $385,569 in Hold Harmless relief. Pocono Mountain will also receive about a $1 million cyber charter reimbursement, and $280,686 for school safety (mental and physical).
Totals just over $6 MILLION-- and that's just for POCONO MOUNTAIN!
The budget did not include private school vouchers, which is very positive news.
Cyber Charter reform will include much needed oversight, just like the public schools that use public money, and we will finally have some much needed information about their wasteful spending.
This is a step in the right direction.
Data Source:
- https://www.houseappropriations.com/Topic/BudgetYears/806
- https://houseappropriations.com/files/Documents/2024_25%20Education%20Spreadsheet.pdf