Report: Pennsylvania School Budgets Crashing Without Stimulus | CNSnews.com: "(CNSNews.com) - Public schools and state-owned universities in Pennsylvania face massive cuts in the state's 2011-12 budget as federal stimulus money runs out.
While officials knew the federal stimulus money would end, Jay Himes, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials, said knowing that 'didn't make it any easier.' Himes told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette th at every school district -- rich and poor -- will feel the pain. And he said some of the poor districts may have difficulty surviving.
Jim Buckheit, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators, told the newspaper the stimulus has 'helped to prop up the education funding and gave us a little bit of a reprieve over the last two years from more serious reductions that would have hit.'"
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