HARRISBURG – Governor Edward G. Rendell said today that he could not sign a proposed budget unveiled Friday by leaders of three legislative caucuses because it contains major revenue estimation errors that would render it unbalanced and, therefore, unconstitutional. The plan would create a deficit of more than $400 million in the current fiscal...
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HARRISBURG – The scheduled Aug. 27 payment of more than $876 million to Pennsylvania’s 500 school districts will not occur due to the lack of a state budget, Education Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak announced today. “This marks the second month we have been legally prohibited from providing districts with state funding, and districts have...
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NORRISTOWN — Montgomery County will delve into its emergency reserve funds to pay the people who provide services to its children, elderly and developmentally disabled residents. The state budget impasse has blocked payments to the providers of those services since June 30th and several have indicated that they have exhausted their reserves and are...
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HARRISBURG – Standing with families of Pennsylvanians with autism, Governor Edward G. Rendell today stressed the need for legislators to maintain critical funding for autism services in the final state budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year. “There was no dedicated budget for autism services when I took office, but since then, Pennsylvania has made...
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HARRISBURG – After more than 48 days without a final state budget, Governor Edward G. Rendell today called on legislators to support funding that provides child care services for more than 135,000 Pennsylvania children. Governor Rendell said funding levels proposed under Senate Bill 850 would have caused nearly 8,000 children to lose their child...
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