Education Budget
Summary of State Appropriations for Education
The following file contains a summary of the funding levels for the state education appropriations in the Enacted Budget for 2021-22 fiscal year.
2021-22 Enacted Summary of State Education Appropriations (Excel)
Basic Education Funding
The 2021-22 fiscal year
enacted budget includes $7,066,773,000 for the Basic Education Funding
appropriation. This amount is a $272,284,000 (4.0%) increase over the 2020-21
fiscal year appropriation. The funding includes $100,000,000 to
supplement those school districts with higher at-risk populations of students
and an increase of $200,000,000 to continue sustained investment in school
districts. In addition, as required by the Pennsylvania Public School
Code, the 2021-22 fiscal year enacted appropriation includes $511,694,000 for
the School Employees’ Social Security portion of the appropriation, which must
be used for School Employees’ Social Security payments to school
districts.
2021-22 Estimated Basic Education Funding (Excel)
2020-21 Final Basic Education Funding (Excel)
Special Education Funding
The 2021-22 fiscal year enacted budget includes $1,236,815,000 for the Special Education appropriation. This amount is a $50,000,000 increase (4.2%) over the 2020-21 fiscal year appropriation.
For the Special Education funding component, new dollars after the 2013-2014 fiscal year total approximately $196,350,000.
2021-22 Estimated Special Education Funding (Excel)
2020-21 Final Special Education Funding (Excel)
The 2021-22 fiscal year Special Education appropriation also includes funding of approximately $92,929,170 for the following components: Special Education Contingency Fund, Core Services funding to Intermediate Units, Institutionalized Children's Program funding, special education for wards of state students and special education for students placed out of state.
Ready to Learn Block Grant
The 2021-22 fiscal year enacted budget includes $288,000,000 for the Ready to Learn Block Grant. The spreadsheet contains allocations based on the distribution of the 2020-21 fiscal year Ready to Learn Block Grant appropriation.
2021-22 Ready to Learn Block Grant (Excel)
Secondary Career and Technical Education Subsidy
Governor Wolf's proposed 2021-22 fiscal year budget includes approximately $72,777,000 for the Secondary Career and Technical Education Subsidy.
Read the narrative description and estimated allocations.