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McGuffey budget officer warns state and federal funding shortfalls could hit programs and food service
Summary
At the McGuffey School District meeting, the district budget presenter said Pennsylvania’s unpassed state budget and federal funding uncertainty put Title I and food subsidies at risk and left the district reliant on local tax receipts and a $7 million tax anticipation note.
Miss Popcock, presenting a 2025–26 budget update to the McGuffey School District board, warned that an unresolved state budget and a federal funding impasse are placing key education subsidies at risk and are already affecting district planning.
"By this time, last year, we had already received $7,300,000 in state subsidies," Miss Popcock said, noting that to date the district had received roughly $10.5 million in revenue from local taxes against a budgeted $35.5 million in revenue for the fiscal year. She told the board that expenditures to date total a little over $9 million, or about 25% of budgeted…
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