Published February 11. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n
Northern Lehigh School District could receive nearly $500,000 in additional funding through Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s proposed 2026-27 budget.<\/p>\n
District Business Manager Sheri Molitoris announced at Monday\u2019s school board meeting that last week district officials gathered to watch Shapiro\u2019s proposed spending plan budget.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proposal continues investments in public education by advancing adequacy and equity through increased basic and special ed funding while strengthening student support services and school safety,\u201d Molitoris said. \u201cIt also maintains Ready to Learn funding, expands mental health and safety initiatives through the PCCD (Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency), and continues Tax Equity Funding to address long-standing disparities across Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
For Northern Lehigh, Molitoris said the proposed budget includes:<\/p>\n
\u2022 An increase in basic education funding of $372,772.<\/p>\n
\u2022 $76,287 in special education.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sets its Ready to Learn block grant at $372,616.<\/p>\n
\u2022 An additional $25,992 in Ready to Learn Adequacy funding.<\/p>\n
\u2022 $24,008 in Tax Equity funding.<\/p>\n
Molitoris said that overall, the district is probably close to $500,000 in additional new moneys in the governor\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n
However, she cautioned the figures are preliminary estimates and amounts may change as the budget moves through the legislature process.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am currently working on the 2026-2027 budget,\u201d Molitoris said. \u201cWe will budget some of these increases in, but not to the max for fear that we don\u2019t get everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Director Donna Kulp asked if those numbers are based on what the district got this year from the state.<\/p>\n
Molitoris said this is what Shapiro is proposing in addition to what the district received this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published February 11. 2026 02:45PM Northern Lehigh School District could receive nearly $500,000 in additional funding through Gov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-111364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}