Minnesota needs to spend about $4 billion more every two years to “fully fund” public schools and the state teachers union wants businesses and the wealthy to pick up the tab.
“We believe the public is on our side,” said Denise Specht, president of Education Minnesota, said at a Friday news conference. “There was a time when all Minnesotans believed and invested in our education system.”
Specht didn’t specify how the state should raise the new money