Party leaders say they’re serious about improving students’ lives while Republicans engage in LGBTQ attacks.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz along with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and first lady Gwen Walz, read to kindergarteners in St. Paul, Minn., in January. Walz last month signed an education budget with more than $2 billion in new spending. | Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/AP PhotosDemocrats flexed their new power in state capitals this year by boosting public education funding to record amounts.
The divergent paths on education will likely be a top issue in the 2024 election cycle. Republicans have used state and local education policy to great effect in recent elections, scoring political victories by agitating voters about what’s happening in classrooms. But now state-level Democrats believe they have a potent counterpunch by boasting about big funding hikes and new programs like free meals all aimed at improving student achievement.
Coleman and other Republicans opposed to the latest education budget say that school districts don’t have adequate funding to meet new mandates such as allowing school employees up to 24 weeks of paid family and medical leave, putting school districts on the hook to pick up the tab for hiring substitutes. Districts will then be forced to dip into rainy day funds or pushed into bankruptcy, they argue, to meet the requirements.Minnesota GOP state Sen.
Minnesota Republicans, in response, argue that Democrats are not focused on the necessary basics like improving test scores and instead placed more burdens on schools by introducing new policies without attaching enough funding.didn’t deny, however, that Republicans are talking more about social issues in schools.
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