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State Representative Jim Davnie
100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
651-296-0173
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STATEMENT ON GOP E-12 EDUCATION OMNIBUS BILL
(ST. PAUL) — Today the House Education Finance Committee passed, on a party-line vote, the omnibus education bill. The bill eliminates the rule requiring integrated schools in Minnesota, cuts integration funding for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, freezes special education funding, contains an expansive voucher program and makes several other changes that would have dramatic negative effects for metro schools. The bill, HF 934, now heads to the Taxes Committee.
Rep. Jim Davnie (DFL – Minneapolis), a member of Education Reform and Finance committees released the following statement on the passage of the bill:
“This bill is an incoherent approach to education reform and finance. It reverses a 30 year policy of funding education based on student needs. This bill makes our complex education funding system even more complex, less transparent and less accountable. Inconsistency and confusion don’t help our kids, but that’s the Republican education plan.
“Our students, teachers, and parents need strong reforms and support, targeted at closing the achievement gap. In eliminating integration aid to Minneapolis schools, the Republicans just cut one of the very things that helps address this challenge.
“The voucher program being pushed by the Republicans has to be seen for what it is — an abandonment of our responsibility to prepare all of our Minnesota’s children for college, career, and citizenship. This bill avoids the hard work of supporting bold, thoughtful, innovative policy that is based on what we know is needed, and what we know works.
“The Republican’s misplaced priority of trying to pit the metro versus greater Minnesota is simply wrong. We succeed or fail as One Minnesota. We all do better when we all do better. Our children deserve the highest-quality education system we can provide them. This bill doesn’t make the grade."
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