Last week we hosted a webinar breaking down the in’s and out’s of Governor Shapiro’s 2026/27 budget address and what it means for public education in Pennsylvania.
Below you can find the presentation, link to the entire webinar, as well as helpful links we sent out following the presentation.
Presentation
Resources
- Click HERE for PA Schools Work fact sheets for adequacy districts
- Click HERE for a spreadsheet with proposed allocations for school districts.
- Click HERE to request postcards from Lucas.
- Keep an eye out for additional resources that we will be emailing, including fact sheets with Gov. Shapiro’s proposed funding increases, talking points, and more!
Special education tuition rates for brick-and-mortar charter and cyber charter schools
- Tuition rates for 2025-2026 can be found here.
- Click HERE for the Pennsylvania Department of Education website page where you may download spreadsheets with tuition rates for previous years.
- We explain the 16% issue related to special education tuition on p. 3 of this report. The data in this report is outdated, but the 16% explanation is still good.
Special education funding tiers
- Click HERE for information from the Pennsylvania Department of Education that details the dollar amounts for the reporting categories schools use for students with disabilities.
- Click HERE for the Act 16 report that shows the vast majority of students with disabilities fall into the Tier 1 category.
New Revenue Options
Gov. Shapiro’s proposals to regulate and tax skill games and legalize and tax marijuana would generate $2 billion annually.
Combined reporting 2-pager from the Penn Policy Center. This would require large corporations to pay their share of taxes to Pennsylvania.
Reallocate approximately $200 million/year away from subsidizing the horse racing industry to the PA General Fund (the report and data are a little old, but the the subsidy and waste remain the same)
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