HARRISBURG — A $27.7 billion budget plan written behind closed doors by Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania state House and Senate would send more money to public schools than a plan approved previously by the Senate, but it hasn’t necessarily found a warm reception from Gov. Tom Corbett.

The plan was delivered to Corbett on Tuesday and was not released publicly, but some details were obtained by The Associated Press. In their first face-to-face budget meeting with Corbett on Tuesday night, top Republican lawmakers said he did not commit to their proposed spending level nor did he suggest a more acceptable number.

“We still have a lot of work to do, (but) we still believe we will have the budget done well before June 30,” said Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, after leaving the hour-plus meeting at the governor’s official residence in Harrisburg.

Both Pileggi and Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, called the meeting productive.

The discussion focused mostly on how much the state can expect from tax collections as budget makers decide how much the state can spend next year and how much it can sustain in future years as pension costs rise precipitously.

But Pileggi said the group had only just started the discussion of which parts of the half-billion-dollars that lawmakers added to Corbett’s original $27.1 billion hold-the-line plan are acceptable to him.

Under the lawmakers’ plan, public schools would get $100 million for “accountability block grants” that help districts pay for full-day kindergarten. None of that $100 million was in the governor’s plan, while $50 million of it was in a Senate plan the chamber approved last month.

On Tuesday, Corbett told a radio interviewer that he’s concerned by the bottom-line spending figure of $27.7 billion, and suggested that he would try to negotiate the number down.

“The Senate has a number, I have a number,” he said.

Corbett, a Republican who ran on a no-new-taxes pledge, initially proposed a $27.1 billion hold-the-line budget that cut business taxes by $275 million and called for a series of cutbacks he blamed largely on sluggish tax collections and the rising cost of pensions, debt and health care for the poor.

His budget plan for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would cut $230 million, or 20 percent, from 18 state-supported universities and $168 million, or 20 percent, from aid for a variety of county-run social services.