Minnesota students need YOUR help NOW! Next year, the Minnesota Senate is proposing to add 1% on the per pupil formula and the House proposes .6%.  In plain language, this means the House wants each student to have $33 more and the Senate believes $58 is sufficient.

Know this:

The majority of money schools can use comes from this per pupil formula.
The per pupil formula is an amount set by the legislature, not school boards, superintendents or principals.
The per pupil formula is the same for each child across the state.
Over the last 20 years the formula has increased on average less than HALF of inflation.

In their Education Funding bills, both the House and Senate propose to increase the per pupil formula less than inflation…once again. AND, perhaps most importantly, this is happening at a time when we have an historic state budget surplus. Parents United for Public Education shared this link with additional information.