Governor throws support behind school-funding compromise with Our Schools Now campaign while lawmakers debate the possible deal

Supporters of hiking taxes to raise education spending by over $375 million are at the Capitol gauging whether a compromise to drop their ballot initiative and instead raise money through statewide property taxes and a 10-cent gas tax increase can make it out of the Legislature by midnight on Thursday.On Tuesday, the Governor’s Office signaled it supports the plan: that Our Schools Now would end its initiative campaign in exchange for the Legislature passing a school-funding increase packa