{"id":123483,"date":"2026-02-25T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123483\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:39:08","slug":"pennsylvania-allocates-3-million-for-free-menstrual-products-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/123483\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania allocates $3 million for free menstrual products in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania allocates $3 million for free menstrual products in schools<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCAPITOL, TOM LEHMAN, G A L NEWS EIGHT. ALL RIGHT, TOM, THANK YOU. THE SHAPIRO ADMINISTRATION IS INVESTING IN MAKING SURE MORE GIRLS DO NOT MISS SCHOOL BECAUSE OF THEIR PERIODS. THE DEPARTMENTS OF HEALTH AND EDUCATION ANNOUNCED $3 MILLION ALLOCATED IN THE 20 2526 BUDGET. THAT MONEY WILL BE GIVEN TO MORE THAN 750 DISTRICTS, INTERMEDIATE UNITS, CHARTER CAREER AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, ALL TO PROVIDE FREE &#8212; PRODUCTS TO THEIR STUDENTS. SCHOOL FUNDING ALLOCATIONS FOR THE 20 2526 FEMININE HYGIENE\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania allocates $3 million for free menstrual products in schools<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769026991_958_wgal.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WGAL logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:23 PM EST Feb 25, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Shapiro administration is investing $3 million in the 2025-26 budget to provide free menstrual products to students in Pennsylvania schools.The Departments of Health and Education announced that the funding will be distributed to more than 750 districts, intermediate units, charter schools and career and technical schools.School funding allocations for the 2025-26 Feminine Hygiene Product Grant Program are available on the Pennsylvania Department of Health website.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Shapiro administration is investing $3 million in the 2025-26 budget to provide free menstrual products to students in Pennsylvania schools.<\/p>\n<p id=\"the-departments-of-health-and-education-announced-that-the-funding-will-be-distributed-to-more-than\" class=\"body-text\">The Departments of Health and Education announced that the funding will be distributed to more than 750 districts, intermediate units, charter schools and career and technical schools.<\/p>\n<p>School funding allocations for the 2025-26 Feminine Hygiene Product Grant Program are available on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Pennsylvania Department of Health website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania allocates $3 million for free menstrual products in schools CAPITOL, TOM LEHMAN, G A L NEWS EIGHT.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[57972,57973,15476,10906,57974,9355,48408,57982,9513,227,57979,57976,1057,57980,57975,57977,539,28,30,29,31776,6378,521,57978,8991,6984,57981],"class_list":{"0":"post-123483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-025-26-feminine-hygiene-product-grant-program","9":"tag-750-school-districts","10":"tag-access","11":"tag-career","12":"tag-career-and-technical-schools","13":"tag-charter-schools","14":"tag-department-of-health","15":"tag-departments","16":"tag-district","17":"tag-education","18":"tag-free-menstrual-product","19":"tag-free-menstrual-products","20":"tag-health","21":"tag-intermediate-unit","22":"tag-intermediate-units","23":"tag-investing-3-million-in-the-2025-26-budget-to-provide-free-menstrual-products","24":"tag-pa","25":"tag-pennsylvania","26":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","27":"tag-pennsylvania-news","28":"tag-pennsylvania-school","29":"tag-pennsylvania-schools","30":"tag-school","31":"tag-school-funding-allocation","32":"tag-shapiro-administration","33":"tag-student","34":"tag-technical-school"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123483","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=123483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}