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A Constitutional mandate

A Crossroads for Minnesota’s Public Schools Parents United for Public Schools Committed to Quality public schools for ALL children Public School Issues for 2011 Horace Mann School October 7, 2010 Parents United for Public Schools … Committed to quality public schools for all Minnesota children.

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A Constitutional mandate

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  1. A Crossroads for Minnesota’s Public SchoolsParents United for Public SchoolsCommitted to Quality public schools for ALL childrenPublic School Issues for 2011Horace Mann SchoolOctober 7, 2010Parents United for Public Schools…Committed to quality public schools for all Minnesota children

  2. A Constitutional mandate Section 1.”UNIFORM SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly upon the intelligence of the people, it is the duty of the legislature to establish a general and uniform system of public schools. The legislature shall make such provisions by taxation or otherwise as will secure a thorough and efficient system of public schools throughout the state.”

  3. The Lion’s Share of District Funding Per pupil formula (Set by State Legislature) x AMCPU (Adjusted Marginal Cost Pupil Unit) = District Operating Funds

  4. The Basic Formula Has Not Kept Up With Inflation

  5. Tax Reform in the 90’s State policies reforming property tax • Lowered taxes on commercial property • Agricultural and recreational land removed from the equation for school taxes The 2001 General Education Buy Down • The state picked up school costs once paid by local property taxes • Passed half of the legislation—the liability was accepted, without a stated revenue stream to support it.

  6. Choices have consequences Mn Budget Project Minnesota passed significant tax cuts and rebates in the late 1990s, led to a decline in state/local government’s share of personal income

  7. Requirements for public schools grew while revenue did not • Testing • Standards • Special education mandates • Transportation • English Language Learning • Health and safety mandates • Physical Education • HIV/AIDS Sex Education • Drug/Alcohol Abuse Education • Bus Safety • Title 1 programs • 100% Rule

  8. Schools and Revenue in the 90’s Increases in growth Increases in expectations Increases in cost Schools Incometax reductions Property tax reductions Business tax rate reductions Revenue

  9. How did schools survive? • Growth • Cuts • Spent fund balances down • Passed Local Levies

  10. Minnesota school districts respond • 1990 47% of school districts in the state of Minnesota had levies in place • By 2009 that number rose to 92%

  11. State expenditures from General Fund

  12. In Minnesota, who are the students of the 21st Century?

  13. % of MN children rated “not yet” performing adequately at Kindergarten entrance Brookings Institute Language and literacy Mathematical thinking

  14. Special Education Requirements 1975 –”Individuals with Disabilities Education Act” (IDEA), Public Law 105-17 • Brought 1 million children who were previously kept at home or in institutions into the public school system. • Federal government agreed to pay 40% of excess cost to educate these children. It has never provided 40% • The Federal government owes the American children $26 billion a year!

  15. So… • More children qualifying for Free and Reduced Lunches (FRL) • More children needing English Language Learning services (ELL) • More children requiring Special Education services (SpEd) • 100% rule for the first time in history

  16. And the state response? • Programs shown to close the achievement gap have been held flat or cut • child care eligibility • early childhood education • after school programs • English Language Learning services capped at 5 years • From 2003 until 2007 the special education inflator was abolished

  17. And the conversation for 2011? • More student testing • Alternative routes to licensing teachers • Connecting teacher/principal evaluations to student performance (Student performance defined as increased test scores) • Nationally-increasing charter schools, firing ineffective teachers/ principals, closing “low-performing schools” • Vague conversation about early childhood education • NO conversation about money or more student learning time

  18. 1,400,000 1,200,000 1,000,000 18-24 800,000 65+ 600,000 5-17 400,000 200,000 0 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030 By 2020 65+ is Larger than K-12By 2030 65+ Doubles Tom Gillaspy

  19. Minnesota Future Labor ForceTom Gillaspy

  20. What is needed in 2011 • A broader definition of “reform” • A broader definition of “effectiveness” • A broader definition of “student success” • Increased funding and stability in that funding

  21. Parents United Working to engage concerned citizens in the conversation around public policy and its effect on our public schools www.parentsunited.org Advocates for Minnesota’s Public Schools

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