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Budget updates: Basic ed. subsidy for Philly $30 million less than expected? | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Budget updates: Basic ed. subsidy for Philly $30 million less than expected? | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

Budget updates: Basic ed. subsidy for Philly $30 million less than expected?

John Micek, the Morning Call’s state house reporter, just posted the House Appropriations Committee’s district-by-district breakdown for basic education subsidies in the 2010-11 state budget.
In this breakdown, the Philadelphia School District is slated to receive a $64,189,949 increase in its basic

Blogging the state education budget

I'm Rajiv Venkataramanan and I’ll be adding my voice to the conversations taking place on the Notebook blog. I am currently the Fels Fellow at the Notebook, focusing my research and writing on the politics and economics of education funding in Pennsylvania.
Through this blog, I’ll do my best to keep an eye on funding and budget related issues, and specifically how they will affect education across the state. Today's post is about the biggest funding/budget related issue currently on everyone’s mind: the state budget.