For the 2010-11 school year, the Franklin Area School District received a 2.41% increase in state Basic Education Funding resulting in a $12,063,578 payment. Valley Grove School District received a 3.88% increase, which was the highest increase in BEF in Venango County. Kennett Consolidated School District in Chester County received the highest increase in the state at 23.65% increase in funding for the 2010-11 school year. One hundred fifty school districts received the base 2% increase in 2010-11. The amount of increase each school district receives was determined by then Governor Edward G. Rendell and Secretary of Education Gerald Zahorchak through the allocations set in the state education budget proposal.