Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf Talks Education Funding In Philadelphia
By Marcy Norton
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf toured a Philadelphia elementary school Friday to promote his education initiatives. KYW's Marcy Norton was with the Governor at William H. Hunter Elementary school in North Philadelphia.
First graders welcomed the governor with a song, just before he got down to a discussion about school funding proposals. The governor says his proposal to increase the state's share of public education funding to 50 percent would help schools in urban and rural areas, and would include $538 million in tax relief for Philadelphia.
"We have got to fund education adequately, we've got to raise the money we use to fund education fairly, and those two things are important across Pennsylvania," said Gov. Wolf.
Wolf says he'd like part of that funding to come from a severance tax on gas drillers in the state, and he wants to prevent drillers from passing that cost along to landowners, a move some state lawmakers say they're not sure is legal.
