For the 2009-10 budget year, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided a 13.29% increase in Basic Education Funding for a total of $116,029,024 to Reading School District. Among the districts in Berks County, the highest increase went to Muhlenberg School District which got a 22.31% increase in BEF. Ninety school Pennsylvania public school districts received a 2% increase. Muhlenberg School District in Berks County received a 22.31% increase in state basic education funding in 2009. The amount of increase each school district received was set by Governor Edward G. Rendell and the Secretary of Education Gerald Zahorchak, as a part of the state budget proposal. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 14,568 Reading School District students received free or reduced-price lunches due to low family income in the 2007–08 school year.