State Education Spending at Record High

The recently passed Pennsylvania state budget sets a new record for state funding for public schools. The chart below illustrates this growth over the years.

The total budgeted for the 2014-15 fiscal year—$10.04 billion—is $290 million more than the prior year. Indeed, in represents an increase of nearly $1 billion since 2011-12 (Governor Corbett’s first budget).

It is even higher than years when state tax dollars were supplemented with temporary federal stimulus funds—$400 million more than the combined total in 2010-11 (and $1.5 billion more when just looking at state tax dollars).

State Education Subsidy