There's no other way to put this: in unallotment, the Governor blinked. Pawlenty threatened to cut funding to the districts with more poor kids than any other (compensatory aid for Minneapolis and St. Paul) , and a day later, even his own finance commissioner was backing away from the threat. Today, compensatory funding was nowhere among the cuts.
I don't know all the other ins and outs, but the Senate DFLers hung tough and Pawlenty did not disproportionately cut city schools. So congrats to the Senators. There's still big trouble down the road, of course... David Brauer King Field on 2/7/03 3:13 PM, Jeanne Massey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Save Our Schools has put out this announcement: > > Dear Friends of Public Education, > > Thank you for your support of Save Our Schools! We had a fabulous turnout > at Whittier School last week - 250 people showed up to show their support > for public education! There will be a Save Our Schools web site > (www.sosmn.org) up and running on Monday February 10th! And early next week > we will be contacting you with a more detailed update and a plan for TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
