Daily News | Pa. House Dems poised to approve a $45.5 billion spending plan — and get around the school voucher controversy
House Democrats are poised to pass a $45.5 billion budget, while preparing a legislative maneuver to punt on a $100 million school voucher program.approved last week to create a private-school voucher program for students eligible to attend the state’s lowest-performing public schools.if it included his other spending priorities, such as universal free school breakfast and public education funding increases.
In other words, the money would be set aside, but couldn’t be spent until lawmakers create the voucher program., Shapiro’s general counsel Jennifer Selber wrote in a letter Monday to House Democrats’ chief counsel that without corresponding legislation to statutorily create the school voucher program, the $100 million for it in the full spending bill “would sit idle in a Treasury account.
“This budget that we put together was put together with the governor as an agreement, as a whole package,” Senate President Pro Tempore Kim Ward . “If they pull out our priorities ... you’re going to see a very slimmed-down, scaled-back budget, because there were things in this budget that we really didn’t want to do.”
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