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With School Funding at the Center of Election-Year Debate, Statewide Movement to Invest in Public Schools Picks Up Steam HARRISBURG, PA (August 8, 2018) — PA Schools Work, a nonpartisan statewide movement calling on Pennsylvania lawmakers to adequately and...
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Jul 24, 2018 | Cara Morningstar JERSEY SHORE – In the ongoing discussion of Jersey Shore Area School District’s deficit, the school board asked to look into options regarding selling schools after hearing a long-term financial outlook presentation during its meeting...
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By Nick Hoffman newsroom@thecourierexpress.com | Jul 20, 2018 DuBOIS — The DuBois City Treasurer’s Office is bracing for a deluge of phone calls when the school district tax notices are mailed Aug. 1. The treasurer’s office collects taxes for not only the city but for...
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By Ed Palattella | Posted Jul 12, 2018 at 12:01 AM Erie School District and Erie County Assessment Board continue to challenge Commodore Perry Yacht Club’s assessed value. Appeals have extended the six-year fight over the property taxes for the private Commodore...
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Lindsay C. VanAsdalan, York Dispatch Published 1:24 p.m. ET July 10, 2018 Harrisburg School District — one of four Pennsylvania school districts, including York City, in financial recovery — will remain under state oversight for the time being. The district was the...
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ALEX GELI | Staff Writer | Jul 9, 2018 Your current school property tax rates may be lower than they were a year ago, but don’t expect to pay any less. In fact, all 17 local school districts have raised taxes in their approved 2018-19 budgets. This year’s rates were...
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Michael DiVittorio | Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 10:06 p.m. Plum School District’s 2018-19 spending plan carries significant changes to staff, taxes and curriculum. The board voted 5-3 June 26 to approve a 2018-19 budget including furloughs of 26 teachers and one...
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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...
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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...
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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...
