A more than two-month-long state budget impasse is leading to financial impacts at Pittsburgh Public Schools, officials said Monday, causing additional issues for a district already grappling with how to solve a possible budget deficit.

During Monday’s business and finance meeting, Chief Financial Officer Ronald Joseph detailed steps the district has taken to ensure things such as payroll and benefits continue to be funded despite state leaders not releasing vital dollars to school districts across the state as disagreements over the budget continue.

So far, Pittsburgh Public leaders turned to Pennsylvania’s Act 85 relief program, which means the state paid $28.7 million of the district’s debt service due Aug. 29. Without that relief, Mr. Joseph said, “we would be in a much worse positio

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