dr. william hite. he is the superintendent of school district philadelphia.hank you for being here. >> thank you. >> you're excited about the new year? >> i am excited. and this year i'm more excited than nervous because there are things that we did not have to do this year that we had to do in the previous three years that i've been here like cut things and eliminate things and reduce things. so i'm excited this year that we're going in somewhat stable. >> but you still have a school funding issue in that the state budget hasn't passed yet. so what does that mean? >> yeah, so at the moment, we are -- schools are staffed the way they were staffed a year ago with a few exceptions. we hired a good number of new teachers this year, about 200 more teachers than we had the previous year. we have additional resources that are headed into schools. but we're starting the school year with a budget we ended with last year. but every principal has a list of things that if in fact we get a budget from harrisburg, then they will be able to add those things to their school

dr. william hite says schools opened with the same resources as last year. >> we will get to a point as much of the schools across the commonwealth and run out of cash. >> reporter: when do you start chewing on your fingernails? >> around the end of october. >> reporter: and just in time for end of year holidays. the superintendent says they may have to look at cost-cutting measures. we'll look at that coming up at 11:30. >>> the first charter school in delaware county, william penn's charter school opened in morning. vision academy charter school in lansdowns. >>> today's the first day of school for thousands of catholic school students in our area. we were at st. margaret in arlington this morning. september 8th is the first day of school for most schools associated with the archdiocese of philadelphia. >>> back to school for students in camden county. advisory board went on a multischool tour to celebrate the beginning of school. >>> it will be a hot first day of school for students in philadelphia. you saw them wearing shorts. many will are sitting in schools that lack air conditioning.