Governor Releases Education Plan

Here’s a look inside the Governor’s plan for education:

• An increase to the general education formula by 1 percent in each year of the biennium, for a total cost of $174.4 million.
• Providing $109 million to expand four-year old preschool across the state.
  The Governor’s plan would reimburse districts at a rate of .5 ADM for providing a full day preschool program for four year preschool These students would also generate compensatory revenue and other revenues based on ADM, including achievement and integration revenue, deferred maintenance revenue, charter school lease aid, safe schools levies, and lease levies, but not extended time revenue.
• Provide $28 million to expand free breakfast programs to early learners through grade 3.
• Eliminating the Head Start waiting list.
• Targeting resources at some of rural Minnesota’s lowest performing students by expanding Success for the Future funding that’s targeted at schools serving high numbers of American Indian students. His plan would also expand the state’s Regional Centers of Excellence so that more schools receive assistance through this initiative.