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Key Points from Senate Budget Hearing with Department of Education
Senate Appropriations Committee members highlighted concerns about potential cuts to cyber charter schools, unfilled seats for pre-K programs, and ways to boost student achievement statewide during a budget hearing with the Department of Education today. [Read More]
Key Points from Senate Budget Hearings with Governor’s Budget Office, Department of Revenue, Workforce Development Agencies
Senate Appropriations Committee members raised concerns about the level of spending in Governor Shapiro’s proposed budget, inefficiencies in state government, and the potential consequences of irresponsible budgeting during today’s budget hearings. [Read More]
Key Points from Senate Budget Hearings with Public Utility Commission, State University Presidents
Senate Appropriations Committee members used today’s budget hearings with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) and presidents of several universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to highlight the negative impacts of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s energy policies, and ways to strengthen post‑secondary educational institutions. [Read More]
Key Points from Senate Budget Hearing with Department of Transportation
Serious concerns were raised about PennDOT’s questionable management of public transit and infrastructure projects during a budget hearing with the Senate Appropriations Committee today, with lawmakers pressing the agency not only on project oversight but also on the growth of funding held in certain accounts and the lack of transparency surrounding how those dollars are being spent. [Read More]
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Tec Centro has been a true model for how job training programs are supposed to work: changing lives by connecting so many Pennsylvanians to better careers and opportunities. Gov. Shapiro cut them out of his budget even though his Administration acknowledges their success. Why?
Cyber charter rates are set by 500 different funding formulas through the state. The politics of this are really starting to interfere with the education of kids and the choice of parents.
Gov. Shapiro’s budget relies on billions of one-time sources and billions of new revenues that haven’t been easy option to get done. We need to work to right-size government to bring expenditures more in line with revenues to prevent billions in new taxes on PA families.
I raised concerns to the Department of Human Services about taxpayers funding child care seats for families who consistently don’t use them, while other families who need this support are denied service. It’s certainly not an efficient use of those funds.
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