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The Rochester Public School Board is looking to trim $14 million dollars out of the 2023-2024 budget in order to address the districts structural deficit.

Lancaster County’s three poorest schools are set to get an extra boost in the 2021-22 state budget to prop up low-income districts following the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of a more than $6.5 billion investment in K-12 education. The Ephrata Area School District, Columbia School District and School District of Lancaster are among the state’s 100 poorest school districts slated to receive a piece of a $100 million “Level Up” supplement using federal COVID-19 relief dollars.Â...