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Educators, Businesses Back Education Tax

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Steve Bell
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Governor Holden says keeping industries requires better education funding.

By Steve Bell

Kansas City – Educators from 12 area districts, business owners and parents assembled for a roundtable on education financing November 18 at Longview Community College. The crowd backed a revenue increase to stop dwindling budgets, but Republican leadership in Jefferson City contends the revenue shortage is a "Democratic fiction."

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