A Funding Example
The widely varying claims that state funding for public education has stayed the same or slightly increased or that it's been cut by nearly $1 billion depends on how the numbers are presented. Here is a breakdown of Line Mountain School District funding for six fiscal years. While the Corbett administration says subtract the ARRA, or federal stimulus money, and funding has been maintained. But critics ask how school districts are expected to pay increased health care premiums, pensions and operational costs when funding in 2011-12 and as proposed for 2012-13 is the same as it was four years ago.
2007-08: $5,737,833
2008-09: $5,909,969
2009-10: $5,326,003 with about an additional $715,000 in ARRA money, $6,041,000
2010-11: 5,207,443 with about an additional $717,000 in ARRA money, $5,924,000
2011-12: $5,909,000
2012-13*: $5,909,000
* Proposed