A bill by the Minnesota Legislature only needs Governor Tim Walz’s signature to increase funding, along with enacting some additional mandates for Princeton Public Schools (PPS) and other public schools across the state.
School funding will, thanks to the recently passed compromise education budget, go up by $2.26bn, which amounts to a 10.8% increase over the present biennium. In the next two years, another $3.2bn will be added. However, in addition to the additional money, the bill also institutes new mandates as well.
Mandates include offering courses in personal finance, ethnic studies, and civics. More specifically, students beginning high school in 2024 will have graduation requirements of passing personal finance and civics added to the current requirements. School districts must also add ethnic studies by 2026 for high school students and include it in the curriculum of middle and elementary schools by 2027.
Municipalities, with the assistance of Print shops, sometimes send handouts to taxpayers to explain changes to the distribution of public funds.
By far the largest appropriation from the bill will be to narrow the gap between special-education spending and revenues, which currently stands at $663m. Other bill provisions include a change in the English learner cross-subsidy from $704 to $1,775 per student, and $75m set aside to improve reading instruction. Among other funding provisions are $64m for more nurses, social workers, counsellors, and other school support personnel, as well as $45m for school libraries.
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