Stay current on issues that impact public schools.
We pull together education and political information from local media to keep you informed.
- Education
While hundreds of Education Minnesota teachers’ union members rallied inside the Capitol in St. Paul Saturday, former Anoka-Hennepin teacher Dan Larson was outside, talking about the uncertainties of retiring at age 62 and whether state lawmakers would pony up money for pension reform.
KSTP.Com
- Legislative
Big moments have been few and far between during the last weekend of the legislative session, and lawmakers have given up hope of finishing work on a budget by Monday’s midnight deadline.
KSTP.Com
- School Life
House members have found a way to fund unemployment insurance for hourly and temporary school workers through the 2027-28 school year. Sponsored by Rep. Emma Greenman (DFL-Mpls), HF1143, as amended, would cancel $77.23 million set aside two years ago for the Northern Lights Express rail project —proposed passenger rail service between Minneapolis and Duluth — and shift about $22.6 million from special education aid to provide $100 million in fiscal year 2026 that would fund the unemployment aid for hourly school workers. The bill was approved by the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday and sent to the House Floor.
Session Daily
- State Budget
With five days to go in the 2025 session, three of four legislative leaders announced a budget agreement Thursday that would sunset unemployment insurance for hourly school employees and eliminate MinnesotaCare eligibility for adult undocumented immigrants.
Session Daily
- Legislative
DFL leaders said a special session is likely as they headed into a state budget negotiation meeting Wednesday. The Legislature has a few days left to complete its work before its May 19 constitutional deadline for adjournment, including passing a state budget. If it doesn’t, a special session will need to be called for the sixth time in eight budget-setting years since 2011.
Session Daily
- State Budget
A list of more than 50 organizations and $100 million. Those are differences that jump out from the House and Senate versions of the omnibus workforce, labor, and economic development finance and policy bill.
Session Daily
- State Budget
The complicated process of crafting a budget to fund state departments and agencies in the 2026-27 biennium had its unofficial kick off in November 2024 when the state’s economic forecast was released.
Session Daily
- Legislative
Minnesota lawmakers strike budget deal, protest erupts on ending health care for undocumented adults
Gov. Tim Walz and legislative leaders struck a budget deal Thursday to roll back health care coverage for undocumented immigrant adults, close the Stillwater prison and make other notable spending cuts.
StarTribune
- Legislative
House members began meeting with their counterparts from the Senate this week to hash out differences in their budget bills. But they remain without global targets as legislative leaders and Gov. Tim Walz continued to meet this week.
Session Daily