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Wolf sticks by $1 billion plan to close Pa.’s education gap, minus his proposed tax increase

While Democrats say the state should put some of its $3 billion revenue surplus into education, Republicans counter that Pennsylvania's financial picture isn’t that rosy.

Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said he believed the decades-old state education funding formula is inadequate and has historically shortchanged schools in both urban and rural districts hanging on by a financial thread.
Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said he believed the decades-old state education funding formula is inadequate and has historically shortchanged schools in both urban and rural districts hanging on by a financial thread.Read moreCommonwealth Media Services
    by Shaniece Holmes Brown for Spotlight PA
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