Reality Check: Corbett and public education funding

Aug. 30, 2013 – by Isaiah Thompson –

A week ago, in response to a reference by President Obama to “brutal” cuts to education in Pennsylvania under Gov. Tom Corbett, Republicans shot back claiming exactly the opposite.

Gov. Corbett, said his campaign manager Mike Barley, has put “more state funding to education than any time in our Commonwealth’s history.”

It’s a forceful claim, given the reality of struggling school districts around the state, including the Philadelphia School District, which has cut hundreds of millions from its budget and still approached the new school year facing roughly a $300 million dollar budget gap.

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http://axisphilly.org/article/breaking-down-claim-of-historic-education-funding-under-corbett/