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H ow does a school district absorbthe loss of $1 million in statefunding?

Administrators across Pennsylvaniahave been confronting the possibility sinceGov. Tom Corbett presented his 2011-12budget proposal — which slashes fundingfor public schools by more than $500 mil-lion — less than a week ago.

Administrators from the Big Beaver FallsSchool District provided a candid answer tothe challenge:

After-school and summer school programswill likely be eliminated.

Athletic budgets will be scrutinized.The swimming pool may be closed. Transportation costs may be reduced by

combining middle school and high schoolbus routes, creating routes that could keepstudents on the bus for a longer period oftime each day.

Full-day kindergarten, a treasuredresource, may be reduced.

Staff and faculty may be furloughed.Taxes may be raised.

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WHAT IT COULD DOIMPACT OF GOV. CORBETT’S PROPOSED 2011-12 BUDGET ON BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTSDistrict, then potential loss in funding:

Aliquippa$1,522,062Ambridge$1,687,254Beaver Area$925,543

Beaver Falls$1,665,470Blackhawk$1,391,638C.Valley$1,416,749

Freedom$1,148,882Hopewell$1,693,898Midland$569,256

N. Brighton$1,526,062Riverside$1,172,907Rochester$998,158

South Side$1,377,001WesternBeaver$827,495

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.Source: Beaver Valley Intermediate Unit

CENSUS NUMBERS

Population numbers start to look better in regionMichael PoundTimes Staff

Contained in the num-bers released by the U.S.Census Bureau last weekare two truths: the Pitts-burgh region still hasn’trecovered from the econom-ic disaster of the 1980s, butthings are slowly starting toget better.

The census bureaureleased two seemingly con-tradictory sets of figures for

Beaver, Allegheny andLawrence counties, anannual population estimatebased on samples takeneach July and the data fromthe 2010 census, whichdelivers the official popula-tion count for the state, itscounties and towns.

The decennial countshowed that Beaver County,for example, lost 6 percentof its population between2000 and 2010, a decline thatreflected the experience

across the region, with theexception of Butler andWashington counties.

The estimates also reveal

a short-term trend: BeaverCounty gained population,albeit slightly, from 2009 to2010, and Allegheny County

showed slight gains in popu-lation over the last two years.

So what’s going on? ChrisBriem, a demographer withthe University of Pitts-burgh’s University Centerfor Social and UrbanResearch, said the twotrends identified in thenumbers are both accurate.

“The overall decade is acontinuation of the declinethat started in the 1980s,”Briem said. “But the short-term numbers show some-

thing that we’ve beenexpecting for a little while —the start of a slow reboundthat I think we’ll see over thenext decade or two.”

The exodus that occurredduring the collapse of thesteel industry was especial-ly devastating, not justbecause of the numbers ofpeople leaving, Briem said.

“The people who leftwere younger people, young

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“No one’s ever going to mistake Pittsburgh for Phoenix, but we’re finally going to start

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Demographer with the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Social and Urban Research

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