ERIC Number: ED620275
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Dec
Pages: 2
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-
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Report Summary: Pennsylvania Distributes Emergency K-12 School Funding Backwards--The Fewest Dollars Go to School Districts with the Greatest Need
Polson, Diana; Henninger-Voss, Eugene
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center
This brief looks at how Pennsylvania distributed $174 million to Pennsylvania's public school districts in K-12 funding from the CARES Act that the federal government left up to states to allocate. The legislature and the Wolf administration agreed to distribute a fixed amount per district plus distribution of the remaining funds based on districts' numbers of students (average daily membership or ADM), not taking into account the variables (like poverty) that the BEF formula recognizes, based on research, make some students more expensive to educate. [For the full report, see ED620127.]
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Pandemics, Federal Legislation, COVID-19, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Resource Allocation, School Districts, Retrenchment, Funding Formulas, Grants, Economically Disadvantaged
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center. 412 North 3rd Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101. Tel: 717-255-7181; e-mail: info@pennbpc.org; Web site: https://krc-pbpc.org/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center (PBPC)
Identifiers - Location: Pennsylvania
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act 2020
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