The state provides additional education funding to schools in the form of Accountability Block Grants. The use of these funds is strictly focused on specific state approved uses designed to improve student academic achievement. Shamokin Area School District uses its $553,376 to fund all day kindergarten for the sixth year. These annual funds are in addition to the state's basic education funding and all federal funding. School Districts apply each year for Accountability Block Grants. In 2009-10, the state provided $271.4 million in Accountability Block grants $199.5 million went to providing all-day kindergartens.