When: Columbia Borough School District board meeting, April 6.
What happened: The school district has more than $8 million in its collective fund balance that can be used to cover capital projects, health care costs and minimize annual tax increases into the foreseeable future.
Background: Since the 2016-17 school year, the district has experienced a $4.75 million increase in total reserves. The district entered 2020-21 with $2.1 million in general funds assigned to offset increases in pension costs and future budget deficits, $1.72 million in capital reserve funds to spend on essential capital improvements at its academic buildings, $2.82 million in health insurance funds to cover employee health care expenses, and an additional $2.2 million in unassigned funds. These figures do not include federal aid from Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief grants received during the current school year.
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When: Penn Manor School District board meeting, April 6.
What happened: Penn Manor is one of 61 Pennsylvania school districts with âsignificant disproportionalityâ in special education, based on race and ethnicity, under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Act policy. Theresa Kreider, district director of special services, said the district had a higher representation of Latino or Hispanic students in special education receiving in-school suspensions over 10 days in length during the 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20 academic years. Penn Manor is the only district in Lancaster County flagged by the state for being significant disproportionate.
Background: Hispanic or Latino students account for 15.8% of the districtâs total population but 23.7% of the districtâs special education population. The district has 200 Hispanic students in its special education programs. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Hispanic students with disabilities were at least 2.5 times more likely to
April 08, 2021 9:13 PM
State and federal grant money is going a long way to help soften the financial blow of Claremont Unified School District’s reopening and pandemic-related expenses.
The district will have received $19.3 million in government grant money when all is said and done, most all of it earmarked for specific COVID-19 mitigation related expenses. Thus far it has spent $4.2 million and has received $4 million, with much more on the way soon.
“As far as when we will receive it, it varies depending on the funding source,” said Lisa Shoemaker, CUSD’s assistant superintendent, business services. “We should be getting most of it between now and September. But again, that is just a cash flow issue. It doesn’t affect when we can spend the dollars. Most of the grants do have deadlines for fully expending them however, and most of those deadlines are within the next two to three years.”
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The FY 2022 Enacted Budget includes new revenue resources that provide the revenues needed to make the investments that will support New York s ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic and New York s recovery from it, including:
Hard Won Federal Support: The Budget deploys the first $5.5 billion of the $12.6 billion provided for in the federal American Recuse Plan Act 2021. These funds are integrated throughout the budget in accordance with available federal guidelines. Remaining funds will be used in future budgets over the four years that the funding is available.
Secured Federal Support for Local Governments: The Budget includes appropriation authority for local governments to receive Federal support that Governor Cuomo fought tirelessly for. The historic package of $10.8 billion in Federal aid for local governments is a lifeline to localities, helping to support essential workers
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