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
- 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.- Property assessment and reassessment
- Fund Balance FAQs
- Fiscal Health, Annual Overview of School Districts
- Growth Allowance Index
- PSBA Pension Study Committee Report
PDF
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.
- Revenue and Expenditure
- School Construction Survey (PDF)
2001 survey shows that the planned construction for the next five years will closely match the actual construction pattern of the last five years