Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing to add more than $1.3 billion in basic-education funding and wants to use the state’s fair-funding formula to distribute all basic-education funds to school districts. Wolf said Tuesday his proposal would “ensure students in every community have the funding to succeed” and would be funded by a personal income tax increase to 4.49%, up from 3.07%. The administration claims expanding exemptions would allow two-thirds of income taxpayers would pay less or the same.

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Source: Wilkes-Barre Citizens Voice, Feb. 3, 2021.