Gov. Josh Shapiro visited Susquehanna Township High School on Wednesday to discuss the impact of recent education funding hikes, with two months to go until the next state budget cycle that will likely see another fight over further increases.

Shapiro spoke with Susquehanna Township students and teachers for more than an hour before making formal remarks in the high school library and signing a commemorative copy of the budget legislation that was finalized in November, ending the state’s four-month-long fiscal impasse.

That budget deal included over $700 million in new baseline K-12 assistance to school districts, along with millions more in net savings from revisions to the way districts pay for students who opt into cyber charter schools.

The increases are part of a trend that be

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