Northern Lehigh School District could get significant increases in its Basic Education funding.

District Business Manager Sherri Molitoris said at Monday’s school board meeting that Gov. Josh Shapiro proposed state budget calls for a 13.62% increase, or $1.1 billion, to Basic Education to be funded through two different funding formulas.

She said Shapiro also is proposing resetting the base amount back to what is the 2023-2024 amount.

Molitoris said that if the governor’s budget passes, Northern Lehigh’s increase would be $765,000 in additional revenue, which would amount to $8.874 million in yearly Basic Education.

She said Shapiro also proposed $50 million increase to Special Education, for which Northern Lehigh’s increase would be $52,000, with a yearly amount of $1.613 million in Special Education.

Molitoris said Shapiro also proposed $50 million additional for safety and security grant funded through the PCCD.

She said Shapiro also proposed $100 million for school mental health again.

Molitoris said he also proposed $300 million for school environmental repairs and improvement grants, which represents $1.5 billion over five years.

“The big initiative that school districts are hopeful will go through is the state Cyber tuition rate for Cyber schools will be maxed at $8,000 per year per student, and that is to better align the actual cost that it costs to actually (online education) for students,” she said. “So, hoping that he’s able to get that to push through, that’s a significant savings for Northern Lehigh, we pay almost $14,000 a year for Basic Education Funding for Cyber Charter Schools, so it would be a huge amount of money back to us.

“Hopefully we get a budget passed before ours. I doubt that it will happen, but we will build accordingly.”

Shapiro’s proposed budget will now be taken up by the state Senate and House.

The new fiscal year starts on July 1.