Gov. Shapiro Signs $50.8B Pa. Budget with Focus on Education, Public Safety

After years of flat funding, Penn State gets performance-based boost in PA budget

After years of flat state funding, Penn State will receive an increase in state education funding through Pennsylvania’s newly implemented performance-based funding model for the upcoming fiscal year’s state budget.

Here’s what’s in — and not in — Pennsylvania’s $50.8 billion state budget

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s new $50.8 billion state budget was sprawled across more than 600 pages of legislation and signed into law on Sunday. New data center regulations, new education funding, and more were approved in the wide-ranging spending package. But…

Pitt, Penn State will get millions in performance-based funds, while money for other colleges stays stagnant in Pa. budget

For eight consecutive years, the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State have seen their general support funds from the state remain stagnant at $151.5...

Pennsylvania's recently approved spending plan to fund education, housing and safety

The Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a $50.8 billion state budget Sunday and Gov. Josh Shapiro signed it into law. What’s in the state’s fiscal 2027 budget that would be critical for the Black community?

More than 80,000 Pa. retired teachers, police officers, and firefighters will get a pension bump — some for the first time in decades

Negotiated as part of this year’s state budget and signed into law Sunday, more than 80,000 retired public sector workers will receive cost-of-living increases to their pension plans.

Pa. Gov. Shapiro signs ‘compromise’ state budget

Both sides called it a compromise with $2.4 billion less in spending than Shapiro’s proposal, no new revenues and leaving the rainy day fund alone.