Issue: School Funding and Finance
When new legislation passes, PSBA is seen as the leader in analyzing it and helping members make sense of it.
Public School Funding, Finances & Fiscal Health
- PSBA Bulletin, February 2011
Attachments referenced in "Making Money Count" column, new filing rules for when school districts file their budgets, audits
- S.E.C. Comments on Responsibilities of Underwriters in Recently Adopted Amendments to Rule 15c2–12
- Summary of Amendments to 17 C.F.R. § 240.15c2-12 (“Rule 15c2-12”)
- A Closer Look: The Pennsylvania School Funding Campaign
A legislative issue summary addressing State funding of Pennsylvania's public schools
• www.paschoolfunding.org
- Actual Instructional Expense (AIE)
- Average Weekly Wage, Statewide (SAWW)
- Budgets, Annual Review of Public Schools
- Consumer Price Index (CPI)
The CPI provides information about price changes in the nation's economy to government, business, labor and private citizens, and is used as a guide to making economic decisions - Cost of Operating a School District
School spending is the result of a mix of federal, state and local actions and decisions. The interrelationship of spending, student needs, and complex laws and regulations is intended to meet the local demand for public education. - Fund Balance FAQs
- Fiscal Health, Annual Overview of School Districts
- Growth Allowance Index
- Pension Reform (more)
- PSBA Pension Study Committee Report
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The PSBA Executive Board created an ad hoc Pension Study Committee to examine the rising cost of the Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) and to formulate policy recommendations for the board’s consideration.
- PSBA Pension Study Committee Report
- Revenue and Expenditure
- Swaps
Financial “derivatives,” including interest-rate hedges (referred to as “swaps”), have been employed by local government units, including school boards, authorities and municipalities, across Pennsylvania and the nation for at least 30 years.- Articles from the October 2008 PSBA Bulletin
- Swaps in PA: The perils and pitfalls of interest rate management agreement
- Steps to take before choosing swaps
- Potential gains, risk with swaps
- Articles from the October 2008 PSBA Bulletin