House passes education bill that locks CTE grant data and adds school safety funding

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 315 on Oct. 8, 2025, a measure amending the School Code to lock the data used each year for career and technical education (CTE) grant calculations and to provide additional education funding provisions, including $100 million for school safety and $175 million in savings redirected from cyber charter school adjustments.

Representative Schweier (Representative, Lehigh County), who identified himself as the majority chair of education on the floor, urged an affirmative vote and described the bill’s core effect: “The underlying provision of senate bill 3 15, would provide for predictability for career and technical centers for many years to come by requiring a more up to date data, for calculating their, education equipment grant funding.” Schweier said the bill also funds school safety grants ($100,000,000) and redirects savings from cyber charter adjustments ($175,000,000) directly to all 500 school districts.

Schweier noted that the bill reconstitutes the performance‑based funding council and maintains the adequacy formula intended to comply with court orders on equitable school funding. After floor debate, the clerk recorded final passage with yeas 105 and nays 98; the House will return the bill to the Senate with the House’s amendments and request concurrence.

The transcript records supportive statements emphasizing predictability for CTE centers and support for school safety grants, and it records the vote totals for final passage. The record does not include the Senate’s position on concurrence or the final signed status of the bill.