IN: Road funding, pre-K to drive debate at 2017 General Assembly

IndyStar: Indiana lawmakers start a new legislative session Tuesday with promises to increase funding for the state’s roads and bridges and preschool education.

In juggling those spending priorities, the Republican-dominated Indiana General Assembly will face two political tests as lawmakers write a new, two-year $31 billion spending plan:

-The potential need to hike gasoline taxes to support a long-term funding plan to maintain and expand Indiana’s highways and interstates.
-Determining how many more Hoosier 4-year-olds should benefit from state-supported prekindergarten education.

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