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Republicans agree to a Half-a-billion for K-12 Education, PreK programs expanded

Yesterday afternoon Governor Mark Dayton announced he'd accept the offer from Republican House leadership, $525 million in new spending for K-12 education. The amount also includes funding to expand PreK for lower income families. The Governor originally sought $418 million in K-12 funding plus an additional $1 billion over four years for taxpayer-funded PreK for all Minnesota 4-year-olds. He dropped the plan and accepted the Republican plan to spend more on existing PreK programs, some of which Republicans helped to establish in 2011.

Republicans drop popular reform measure, add $125 million more for K-12

In order to end the budget stalemate, Republicans quickly dropped all reform measures and added $125 million in new K-12 Ed spending on top of the $400 million increase they passed on May 18th.

State’s largest employer sends layoff notices to 9,500 employees today

The State of Minnesota is the largest statewide employer with over 40,000 employees. Today, 9,451 of them received a 30-day notice that they will be laid off if the legislature and Governor can't pass a budget by July 1.