72 P.S. § 1722-H Department of Education

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 72 P.S. § 1722-H

The following shall apply to appropriations for the Department of Education in the General Appropriation Act:

(1) From funds appropriated for general government operations, $50,000 shall be allocated to promote a national veteran's education program.

(2) From an appropriation for adult and family literacy programs, summer reading programs and the adult high school diplomas program, $400,000 shall be allocated for an after- school learning program servicing low-income students located in a county of the sixth class with a population, based on the most recent Federal decennial census, of at least 60,000 but not more than 70,000.

(3) From funds appropriated for mobile science and matheducation programs, $50,000 shall be used for a math education program that targets middle school students, $150,000 shall be allocated to a nautical science center in a county of the second class, and $14,000 shall be allocated for a math laboratory in a school district in a city of the third class located in a county of the third class.

(4) In addition to funds allocated under section 1905-D of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, funds appropriated for community education councils shall be distributed as follows:

(i) No less than $480,000 for an education consortium serving Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Venango and Warren Counties.

(ii) No less than $143,000 for a community education council located in Wayne County.

(iii) No less than $50,000 for an education partnership located in Lackawanna County that previously received funding from the department for a postsecondary career training grant and is currently providing community education services which support business education.

(5) From funds appropriated for regional community college services, $500,000 shall be distributed to a community college in a county of the fourth class with a population, based on the most recent Federal decennial census, of at least 175,000 but not more than 190,000.