Education+Funding



Corbett Deeply Cuts Eduation Funding
 * Corbett's new budget had to cut $1.5 billion in the education sector
 * Corrbett's biggest target is to cut public education to about $1.5 billion in reduced spending
 * Corbett prosposed $27.3 billion for the fiscal year and decreases to about 3 percent of the years budget
 * The next year Corbett has estimated to $4.16 billion before the next budget was drawn up

Cuts are coming from since Corbett will not enact new taxes:
 * Over than 1,500 state jobs will be eliminated under the budget and bringing the total nearly down from 81,500 million to fewer than 80,000
 * He is saving $850 million from cutting some spending on projects that are commly known as the "walking around money" or WAMs
 * The Education Department budget that the governor proposed $810 million in cuts for the schools with K-12
 * He also is cutting about $550 million or 10 percent from the money for the instruction in public schools K-12 and eliminating $260 million in the grants related to pre-kindergarten, full-day
 * Kindergarten through third grade the class-sizes are reduced in each of the classrooms
 * He also cuts another $625 million for more than 50 percent for the 14 state-owned universities in the State System of the higher education plus, Pitt, Temple, Penn State, and Lincoln

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