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The biggest reduction is $212 million in the Education Department. This could include a $22 million reduction in a program called "Classrooms for the Future,'' which has been supplying computers for high schools across the state. "This is a tough cut for me to make,'' said Mr. Rendell, who created the program three years ago and said educators around the state like it.

Rendell’s office refused to list a detailed accounting of the proposed reductions, even though the governor enumerated specific, proposed reductions, including the zeroing-out of the remaining $22 million in funding for the administration’s marquee “Classrooms of the Future” program.