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Belle Vernon district raising taxes, cutting employees

Belle Vernon district raising taxes, cutting employees

Morgan Cushey Jun 27, 2018 Belle Vernon School Board Monday passed a 2018-19 general fund budget that will result in a tax increase, employee furloughs and reduction in the hours worked by the district’s social worker. The final budget for the 2018-19 school year...
School districts get bump in state funding

School districts get bump in state funding

By PATRICK CLOONAN pcloonan@indianagazette.net Jun 26, 2018 Indiana County school districts all received boosts in state subsidies in the 2018-19 budget approved last week by the General Assembly, House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, said over the weekend. The...
The problem of rising property taxes is not going away

The problem of rising property taxes is not going away

Much has been made of the inequities built into the state’s system of education funding. It has gotten so bad that a group of parents, headed by a family in the William Penn School District, has taken the state to court, looking for the opportunity to argue that the...
How property taxes are crushing some communities

How property taxes are crushing some communities

By Kathleen E. Carey, Delaware County Daily Times The issue of how to appropriately fund education has been a decades-long conundrum that has seen well-attended school board meetings, lawsuits, rallies and even doses of frustration shared by all sides of the debate....
School districts get fiscal shot in the arm with new budget

School districts get fiscal shot in the arm with new budget

Nearly half of the spending increase is to feed the pension fund Written by David Mekeel The numbers look good, but they only tell part of the story. Education was by far the biggest winner in the 2018-19 state budget passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Tom...