Pennsylvania Schools Still Required To Meet Budget Deadline
By Jim Melwert
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania's budget is now 265 days overdue. But, even without a state-budget in place, school districts are still required by law to have their budgets in place by June 30th.
Under normal circumstances, school districts still have to guess at some numbers as they have to put budgets together before the state budget is finalized:
"This year it's doubly challenging because of the fact that they don't know what they're getting this year or next year," said Steve Robinson with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
As for what to base a budget on, Robinson says some districts are looking at what they received for 2014-15, then looking at the governor's and the legislature's proposals, and trying work down the middle.
Bottom line, Robinson says: "I think that parents need to reach out to their legislators and say, 'It's time – well past time to get a budget passed.'"