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GOP lawmakers have reached a deal to pump an additional $500 million into K-12 education, including a $97 million increase for special education. Both figures are well short of the $1.4 billion increase that Gov. Tony Evers proposed. That plan included a $606 million bump for special ed. Still, Sen. Luther Olsen, the Education chair and a member of the Finance Committee, urged Evers to back the de...