Minnesota School Districts Working for Equitable, Adequate and Sustainable Education Funding.
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2011-12 Schedule
SEE General Membership Meetings All general membership meetings are at the same location and follow the same format: Ramada Plaza Minneapolis 1330 Industrial Blvd, Minneapolis 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. – Coffee and conversations 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.– Meeting 11:30 a.m. - Lunch buffet provided
Regional Meetings Five meetings in five different locations three times a year. Dates and locations will be available a month before. Attend the meeting that works best for you
General Membership Meeting Thursday, May 24, 2012 Register Now!
Summer Regional Meetings Pick the location and date that works best for you.
ll public school children must have equal access to a high quality education regardless of where they live in Minnesota
Making Sense of the Rhetoric?
What is Minnesota’s responsibility for its public schools? Have public schools received substantial funding increases over the years or is there a serious lack of investment in K-12 education? What is the role of operating referendums? What’s the truth?
Inadequate state funding forces districts to rely on voter approved referendum levies to offer the very basic educational opportunties for school children.
Equalization was established by the Legislature in the early 1990’s to make operating referendums more affordable to taxpayers in lower property wealth districts. The state provides aid to bring down the cost of referendum to the local taxpayer. However, the equalization factors have not been indexed since 1993 to reflect escalating property values. Thus property owners in lower property wealth districts pay two to three times more for the same referendum revenue for their schools as similar taxpayers in higher property wealth districts.
The disparities with local referendum means children is districts that are unable to pass significant referendum are missing out on valuable learning opportunities.
What Can Be Done? To make a difference, email or call your local legislators. Tell them how important public education is to you and ask them to make education funding more fair. You can find out who represents you.
