How Will Wolf's Budget Impact Lower Merion Schools?

By Kara Seymour

How will Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget impact students and property owners in Lower Merion?

Residents can get the breakdown from a new website, launched last week by the Wolf administration.

The Schools That Teach website provides information about how much each district would receive in funding from Wolf’s budget proposal. It also shows the savings in property taxes under a budget proposal that increases education funding through a severance tax on natural gas and increases in the state income and sales taxes, PoliticsPA reported.

According to the Schools that Teach Website, a school funding increase of $276,506 is proposed for the Lower Merion School District in 2015-16.

In his budget proposal released last week, Wolf said he plans to increase education spending by $400 million in 2015-16 and by $2 billion over four years, The Morning Call reports.

“My budget makes historic investments in education, and www.schoolsthatteach.com shows how my proposed budget will benefit students, schools and property owners in a way that is user-friendly and easy to access,” Wolf said. “My budget proposal increases funding for Pennsylvania’s education system by $1 billion and this website will show users how much of that money will go to increase funding to their local school districts and decrease property taxes in their areas.”

Visit www.schoolsthatteach.com for more details.