Newspaper calls for education funding overhaul

While much attention in Harriburg is focused on the need to reform the state's antiquated property tax system to fund public education, The Mercury reminds lawmakers that they've long ignored the formula the state uses to provide finding for public education.

"Tax-reform advocates focus their attention on reducing the burden on homeowners throughout the state, and that emphasis can not be lost," the newspaper writes. "But an overhaul of how schools are funded would help accomplish the same goal and would address the future needs of solving school funding shortfalls.Pennsylvania needs tax reform coupled with educational funding reform. The time is now."

Read the full editorial here.