Federal COVID aid is coming to an end: how will school districts react?
Introduction: A recent news article profiled four Western Pennsylvania school districts on their use of federal COVID aid and what might happen after the money
Introduction: A recent news article profiled four Western Pennsylvania school districts on their use of federal COVID aid and what might happen after the money
Facing a large budget deficit, the Plum School Board has voted to lay off 23 teachers. The principal causes of the $1.48 million deficit are salary increases of over $900,000 and a requirement to boost the District’s pension contribution by $1,000,000 for the upcoming fiscal year. Limited to raising tax revenues over the current fiscal year by a state imposed index, the School Board has opted not to apply for an exemption from the Department of Education to increase tax rates.
With all the tax talk of late-a possible boost in the state income tax, extending an extra percentage point on the sales tax to counties,
The Department of Education just granted 199 Pennsylvania school districts an exception enabling them to raise taxes by more than the index calculated by
In the weeks since the 2012 assessed values were judicially postponed to become the 2013 assessed values, mailings have been sent out to property owners
While Election Day is relatively "quiet" in southwestern Pennsylvania and the rest of the state with judicial and municipal offices dominating the ballot, there are
The real estate tax; the wage tax; the Local Services tax; the realty transfer tax; the parking tax; the poured alcohol tax; the gross receipts
Question: if Mt. Lebanon school district is limited to a 3% tax increase under Act 1 then how is it that taxpayers woke up this
One of the items that came out of the Governor’s budget presentation on Tuesday was a possible change to Act 1 of 2006, the law
In a blog entry last week we wrote about Act 1 and pointed out that "voters have had little, if any, opportunity to vote a