A reporting problem to the Pennsylvania Department of Education that had cost Panther Valley School District $67,299 in state subsidy has been addressed.

Superintendent of Schools Rosemary Porembo said the problem has been corrected and now the district will receive the funds.Porembo said, "We have set up meetings with all district personnel who are responsible for child accounting. This spans the collection of student data at the building level, child accounting, PIMS and the business office."She added, "A better checks and balances system has been implemented particularly in the category of foster care or students who are placed in private homes. The error has been corrected and we are fortunate that the underpayment will be issued to the district."An audit by the state auditor general's office said the district has been underpaid $150,000 between 2009 and 2012 because the district did not maintain adequate documentation demonstrating the non-resident status of children placed in foster home, and inaccurately reported the membership for these students.These errors resulted in underpayments of $9,870 for the 2010-11 school year and $57,429 for the 2011-12 school year. The errors resulted in a reimbursement underpayment to the district of $67,299 for those two school years.An audit in January 2012 showed an underpayment of $86,299 for the 2009-10 school year.