Pennsylvania’s state budget is more than a month overdue and the General Assembly’s failure to do one of its most basic duties is going to start hurting residents.

As we learned in the Thursday, Aug. 7, edition of the Butler Eagle, Freeport Area School District would have received more than $2 million from the state already this fiscal year, but that money is nowhere to be found.

District superintendent Ian Magness put the blame squarely where it belongs: on the Legislature.

“Our district has not received, as it would by this time, over $2.5 million. Because the state and these folks in Harrisburg are, frankly, falling short of their obligation to provide our kids an appropriate, free public education, and we don’t have any word now as we start school in two weeks,” Magness said.

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