Much Funding Restored for Schools, Higher Ed

According to a Philadelphia Inquirer article, more details began to emerge Tuesday on the budget’ss winners and losers. In the first column: the four state-related universities, including Temple and Pennsylvania State, which will be spared the 30 percent cut Corbett had proposed. The 14 colleges in the State System of Higher Education, which stood to see aid dwindle by 20 percent, also will get all funding restored. Corbett had proposed ending the block grants that school districts use to pay for all-day kindergarten and other early-childhood programs, but all of the $100 million for the program will be restored, according to budget spreadsheets released Tuesday. Click here to read the Philadelphia Inquirer article.

Source: myPLS, The Eye Opener, June 27, 2012.