the solanco school board applied for two exceptions to exceed the act 1 index for the budget in 2011: maintenance of selected revenue sources and teacher pension costs. for the 2009-10 school budget, the board applied for an exception to exceed the index due to special education costs. in the spring of 2010, 135 pennsylvania school boards asked to exceed their adjusted index. approval was granted to 133 of them and 128 sought an exception for pension costs increases.