In a typical year in which a budget is completed on or close to schedule, lawmakers leave Harrisburg by early July and do not return until September.
Other items in this fiscal year’s spending plan that require further action by lawmakers include $10 million for a student teacher stipend program intended to help ease the teacher shortage.
On Monday, Sen. Vincent Hughes, D- Philadelphia and sponsor of a bill that would set up the stipend program, said he believed it was still possible to get it going this school year if lawmakers act on the necessary legislation soon. He cited the reopening of I-95 in Philadelphia in June, less 2 weeks after a section of it collapsed in a fatal accident that led some to speculate the highway would be closed for months.
“It is clearly a crisis,” Mr. Hughes said of the teacher shortage. “I think it is certainly possible this year.”Ford Turner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote this story.
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