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News Regional & State News Education debate draws "dueling governors" to Capitol
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 06:32

Education debate draws "dueling governors" to Capitol

Written by  Mary Wilson

(Harrisburg) -- It was like a case of dueling governors, their Capitol Rotunda rallies separated by less than an hour. First Governor Corbett stood at a podium, surrounded by students and supporters of school vouchers and school choice. He says pumping more money into public education isn’t going to fix the system’s problems. "Go back and look at it, we have been spending more money. We haven’t gotten any better, as far as I’m concerned," Corbett says. And then came Corbett’s predecessor, former Governor Ed Rendell, citing a federal study showing the Commonwealth was among a handful of states whose public schools improved in all grades and subjects over the past eight years. "So don’t let anybody stand at this rostrum or anywhere else and tell you that you can’t make public education work," Rendell says. A vouchers proposal very close to Corbett’s platform has passed in the state Senate. Rendell says he hopes even if it passes in the House, it doesn’t stop the Legislature from restoring state funding to education.

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