The newly passed federal COVID-19 relief bill provides about four times as much funding for K-12 schools as did the first coronavirus relief bill that Congress passed in March.
The increase in funding for schools means a big boost for the Erie School District, which is continuing its financial recovery, and other school districts in the region.
The Erie School District, the largest in northwestern Pennsylvania with about 11,000 students and a budget of $210 million, will receive $27,756,501 in aid under the new $900 billion relief legislation, according to preliminary estimates that Republican state senators in Harrisburg received this week.
The Erie School District received $6,761,026 in aid through the previous legislation, the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.
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Law enforcement agencies thought that double murder suspect Cody Potthoff was at this Columbus Township back in June. While he wasn’t at that residence, he was captured in Warren County.
SKERDA UPHOLDS SANDUSKY SENTENCE
The Associated Press reported in January that Warren County President Judge Maureen Skerda to have his 30- to 60-year child molestation sentence reduced during a brief hearing Tuesday.
Presiding via teleconference from the Warren County courthouse, Judge Skerda said she purposely fashioned the prison term to have an impact on the former Penn State assistant football coach and noted Sandusky continues to maintain his innocence.
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Expect snow in Erie County and across some other areas of Pennsylvania, in some cases through Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.
The National Weather Service in Cleveland has issued a Winter Storm Warning for Erie County through 1 p.m. Saturday. Up to 22 inches of snow is expected.
The snow is expected to begin in earnest after 4 p.m. Thursday for much of the county. But just how much snow will we get?
Here are the projected snow totals in Erie County, Pa.
Albion: New snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches is possible tonight. Christmas Day snow showers could bring an accumulation of 2 to 4 inches, and Friday night showers could bring another 2 to 4 inches.
Why did Kelly wait so long to file his lawsuit?
After the Nov. 3 presidential election, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th Dist., and others filed suit to try to invalidate more than 2.5 million mail-in ballots. His claim is that Pennsylvania’s universal, no-excuses mail-in voting system, which the Republican-controlled general assembly approved with bipartisan support in 2019, is unconstitutional.
The state Supreme Court dismissed Mr. Kelly’s case, stating that he had waited too long to sue over the mail-in voting law. This law was effective in both the spring primary and the Nov. 3 election i.e. votes had already been allowed under this law. In its order, the state Supreme Court found that by waiting to sue until after mail-in ballots were cast, Mr. Kelly’s suit risked “the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters” who had already gone to the polls.