DV welcomes state money

DAVID HULSE
Posted 8/21/12

WESTFALL, PA — The partial settlement of Pennsylvania’s six-month-long budget logjam has released some of the state’s public school basic education, at least last year’s portion.

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DV welcomes state money

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WESTFALL, PA — The partial settlement of Pennsylvania’s six-month-long budget logjam has released some of the state’s public school basic education, at least last year’s portion.

As $30 billion of the $33 billion requested by the governor was approved, the Delaware Valley School District (DV) received a pro-rated $11 million of $14.1 million the district had budgeted, Superintendent Dr. John Bell reported.

“We’re expecting more, but how much is still in question,” Bell said. Gov. Wolf and the legislature are still working to complete the remaining 2015-16 budget issues, while work is scheduled to begin on the 2016-17 budget.

Bell said business manager Bill Hessling anticipates that DV will make up most of $3.1 million DV budget gap. “Some of it comes in subsidies for things like transportation and attendance. Bill said the numbers will be really close. He’s happy and that’s good,” Bell added.

The late-arriving state money prompted a late agenda addition of a new after-school special education program at the school board’s January 21 meeting. Its late arrival deprived several board members of enough time to read the proposal, and it was tabled to their February 18 meeting.

In other business, ongoing attrition among Delaware Valley’s senior faculty members continued last week as “with regret” the board accepted the retirements of four teachers with a combined 115 years of seniority. They included Dingman Delaware Elementary School teachers Bill Edwards (32 years) and Gloria Rumberger (25 years), DVHS orchestra teacher Dave Swinehart (26 years) and DVHS Special Ed teacher and softball coach Angelo Matz (32 years).

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