The state Basic Education Funding Commission, which is charged with developing a fair funding formula for Pennsylvania, needs more time to finish its report. According to the legislative action that created it, the 15-member commission was to have produced a report by today. But Tuesday afternoon, the commission said it was extending the deadline a week. In a phone interview, state Rep. Mike Vereb, R-Montgomery, a co-chair of the panel, said commission members have been working together, but it has proved challenging to synthesize information gathered amid the transition from the administrations of former Gov. Tom Corbett and current Gov. Tom Wolf.

“We’re going to take another week,” he said. “We’re going to give every effort to get there.”

He continued, “All the members of the commission have been working fluidly together. We all understand the goal is to provide for a fair funding formula for the commonwealth.”

The report will be a recommendation, not a final decision. The final formula will be up to the Legislature and Mr. Wolf.

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Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Eleanor Chute and Karen Langley, June 10, 2015 12:00 AM; PSBA Daily EDition, June 10, 2015.