Send a message to Senator Tracy Pennycuick, encouraging her to fight for the children of Berks and Montgomery Counties by insisting on a 2025-26 state budget that makes big investments in EVERY school in our community!

All our children deserve access to a strong foundational education that sets them up for success in career, college, or life.

Lawmakers are debating an education budget proposal budget proposal that would take important steps toward fixing Pennsylvania's unconstitutional school funding system and capping cyber charter reimbursement costs.

The budget proposal would bring $13.4 million in new state funds and savings to the tricounty area that is represented by state Senator Pennycuick.

Send an email to Sen. Pennycuick using the tool on the right to express your support for the 2025-26 funding proposal and encourage her to be a champion for the children, taxpayers, and educators in our state senate district by fighting for the plan and passing a state budget that puts our kids first!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SCHOOL FUNDING

Governor Shapiro's 2025-26 budget proposal takes important steps toward fixing Pennsylvania's unconstitutional school funding system and capping cyber charter reimbursement costs, which will provide huge relief for schools across the state, and especially for the eleven school districts in our 24^th Senatorial District, represented by Senator Tracy Pennycuick.

Sen. Pennycuick's schools will receive $13.4 million more for the next school year if the governor's education funding plan is passed for 2025-26.

Under the funding proposal, all public schools in our community will receive additional state funding, with every school district benefiting from a Basic Education Funding increase and a statewide cyber charter tuition reimbursement cap of $8,000 per student, saving our local districts more than $7.7 million in cyber charter waste.

Three of Sen. Pennycuick's school districts would benefit from additional adequacy funding with a total adequacy shortfall of almost $22 million across the three districts. The remaining shortfall translates to a nearly $1,500 shortfall per student for Boyertown Area, a $729 per student shortfall for the Daniel Boone Area District, and a nearly $1,900 adequacy shortfall per student for Pottstown District.

In addition to the adequacy supplement, Pottstown would receive over $1 million in a tax equity supplement. Pottsgrove School District would also benefit from an additional $482,000 in a tax equity supplement.

If enacted, the 2025-2026 school funding proposal would benefit every school district in this senate district greatly, with nearly $13.4 million in adequacy supplements, tax equity supplements, cyber savings, and BEF increases.

https://paschoolswork.org/school-district-data/

https://paschoolswork.org/the-basics/