Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year would include a 5% increase.
The commonwealth is expected to have a $3 billion budget surplus and more than $7 billion available in American Rescue Plan dollars.
An average shrinking district saw funding increase by $3,200 per student over the past three decades, according to a January report from Public Citizens for Children and Youth, a nonprofit led by a member of former Gov. Ed Rendell’s cabinet.
Many rules around public accountability and transparency remain unwritten, or lack requirements for a detailed accounting of how the money was spent.
