Gov. Tom Wolf is proposing to add more than $1.3 billion in basic-education funding and wants to use the stateâs fair-funding formula to distribute all basic-education funds to school districts. Wolf said Tuesday his proposal would âensure students in every community have the funding to succeedâ 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. The Republican-controlled Legislature would have to approve Wolfâs education proposal, and opposition is already mounting. Rep. Tarah Toohil, R-116, Butler Twp., noted the Legislature last year âkept our commitment to funding education without raising taxesâ in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.