The document summarizes the potential budgetary impacts of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's proposed 2011-2012 budget cuts on several school districts in Beaver County. It states that the Big Beaver Falls School District estimates it could lose $1 million in state funding. As a result, the district may eliminate after-school and summer school programs, scrutinize athletic budgets, close the swimming pool, reduce transportation costs by combining bus routes, cut full-day kindergarten, furlough staff and faculty, and potentially raise taxes. The document also provides the estimated funding losses for other Beaver County school districts under the proposed budget.

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50 cents IT’S MUGSHOT MONDAY. B6 March 14, 2011
H
ow does a school district absorb
the loss of $1 million in state
funding?
Administrators across Pennsylvania
have been confronting the possibility since
Gov. Tom Corbett presented his 2011-12
budget proposal — which slashes funding
for public schools by more than $500 mil-
lion — less than a week ago.
Administrators from the Big Beaver Falls
School District provided a candid answer to
the challenge:
After-school and summer school programs
will likely be eliminated. WHAT IT COULD DO
Athletic budgets will be scrutinized.
IMPACT OF GOV. CORBETT’S PROPOSED 2011-12 BUDGET
The swimming pool may be closed. ON BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Transportation costs may be reduced by District, then potential loss in funding:
combining middle school and high school
Aliquippa Beaver Falls Freedom N. Brighton South Side
bus routes, creating routes that could keep
$1,522,062 $1,665,470 $1,148,882 $1,526,062 $1,377,001
students on the bus for a longer period of
time each day. Ambridge Blackhawk Hopewell Riverside Western
$1,687,254 $1,391,638 $1,693,898 $1,172,907 Beaver
Full-day kindergarten, a treasured $827,495
resource, may be reduced. Beaver Area C.Valley Midland Rochester
Staff and faculty may be furloughed. $925,543 $1,416,749 $569,256 $998,158
Taxes may be raised. TOTAL FUNDING LOSS: Loss of money from cutbacks in proposed basic education funding, accounta-
bility block grants, reimbursement of charter school tuition, and educational assistance program.
See SCHOOLS, Page A2 Source: Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit
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CENSUS NUMBERS
Population numbers start to look better in region
Michael Pound Beaver, Allegheny and “No one’s ever going to mistake Pittsburgh showed slight gains in popu- thing that we’ve been
Times Staff Lawrence counties, an lation over the last two years. expecting for a little while —
annual population estimate for Phoenix, but we’re finally going to start So what’s going on? Chris the start of a slow rebound
Contained in the num- based on samples taken to come back.” Briem, a demographer with that I think we’ll see over the
bers released by the U.S. each July and the data from the University of Pitts- next decade or two.”
Census Bureau last week the 2010 census, which Chris Briem burgh’s University Center The exodus that occurred
are two truths: the Pitts- delivers the official popula- for Social and Urban during the collapse of the
Demographer with the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center
burgh region still hasn’t tion count for the state, its for Social and Urban Research
Research, said the two steel industry was especial-
recovered from the econom- counties and towns. trends identified in the ly devastating, not just
ic disaster of the 1980s, but The decennial count numbers are both accurate. because of the numbers of
things are slowly starting to showed that Beaver County, “The overall decade is a people leaving, Briem said.
get better. for example, lost 6 percent across the region, with the a short-term trend: Beaver continuation of the decline “The people who left
The census bureau of its population between exception of Butler and County gained population, that started in the 1980s,” were younger people, young
released two seemingly con- 2000 and 2010, a decline that Washington counties. albeit slightly, from 2009 to Briem said. “But the short-
tradictory sets of figures for reflected the experience The estimates also reveal 2010, and Allegheny County term numbers show some- See CENSUS, Page A6
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