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Maine Governor Janet Mills today touted a $187 million investment in public education as a central feature of her supplemental budget proposal.
The governor's plan would bring the state's next two-year budget to $8.8 billion and build on a baseline budget that Democrats in the Legislature passed in March.
Mills says the local education funding is long overdue because it brings the state's share to 55%, a threshold mandated by voters 17 years ago but never achieved in subsequent state budgets.
"I think it's a mission accomplished for the state of Maine that we've finally reached that goal," Mills said. "We've tinkered with it for years and we've never gotten close. And we're not only close today, we've gotten there."