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Thursday, 16 February 2012 22:07

Online calculator shows losses from education cuts

Written by  Megan Lello and Radio Pennsylvania

(Harrisburg) -- An education group that's based in central Pennsylvania has created a way to display the effect that cuts to public education could have had on the state's school districts. The Pennsylvania State Education Association in Harrisburg has launched an online calculator that shows the total dollar amount each district is expected to have lost within the last two fiscal years. Group spokesman Wythe Keever says funding for a number of programs has been reduced or eliminated since Governor Corbett took office last year, which could negatively impact students in the long run. "We tried to show how the cuts are broken down, in terms of basic education subsidy, the loss of the accountability block grants, the loss of charter school reimbursements, and other public education programs," he says. In his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, the governor has proposed keeping funding to basic education at about the same rate as last year.

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