The governor's plan to bring in $84 million more a year in tax dollars for schools appears to be running into trouble at the state Capitol.

Sen. Abel Tapia, chairman of the Joint Budget Committee, said Wednesday that support for the politically charged plan is "sporadic" even among majority Democrats.

Ritter has proposed blocking a projected drop in property tax rates in all but three of the state's 178 school districts to fund full-day kindergarten and preschool and shore up the state education fund.

Ritter, in a television appearance Wednesday with host Aaron Harber, pointed out that the same proposal had been supported by the Republican-controlled Senate in 2004.

He said the reason Republicans don't support it now is because he proposed it.