State Basic Education Funding
For the 2010-11 budget year, the Conemaugh Township Area School District was allotted a 2% increase in Basic Education Funding for a total of $6,812,366. The highest increase in Somerset County was provided to: North Star School District and Somerset Area School District both of which received a 2.82% increase. One hundred fifty Pennsylvania school districts received the base 2% increase. The highest increase in 2010-11 went to Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County which received a 23.65% increase in state funding. The amount of increase each school district receives is set by the Governor and the Secretary of Education as a part of the state budget proposal given each February.
In the 2009-2010 budget year, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided a 2.37% increase in Basic Education Funding for a total of $6,678,790. Somerset Area School District received a 4.87%. The state Basic Education Funding to Conemaugh Township Area School District in 2008-09 was $6,524,246. Ninety Pennsylvania school districts received a 2% increase. Muhlenberg School District in Berks County received a 22.31% increase in state basic education funding in 2009.
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