| TIMES- TRIBUNE / AP: When Gov. Tom Corbett chose to cut Pennsylvania’s way out of a projected multibillion-dollar budget deficit, he started by taking a disproportionate chunk of state aid away from the state’s poorest school districts…
At this point, top lawmakers appear to be in the final weeks of assembling a budget that will deliver a heavy reduction in state aid to public schools, and they are unlikely to reverse the approach to cuts in state aid originally taken by Corbett… The proposed cuts fell most heavily on the poorest districts because they receive the lion’s share of state aid, Corbett’s education secretary, Ron Tomalis, said. In fact, some districts stand to lose more money than would even be sent to other, wealthier districts, he said… (more) |
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