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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
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
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...
In high-tax Upper Darby, school bills going up again. The district has plenty of company.
by Meghan Bobrowsky, Staff Writer Property owners in the Upper Darby School District — where local tax rates already are among the highest in the region — will pay even more starting July 1. With officials warning of a potentially dire financial situation and...
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