SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA — The joint House/Senate Conference Committee tasked with developing a compromise state E-12 budget will meet for the first time, pending Senate appointment of conferees, Monday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in Room 5 of the State Office Building. Conference committee previously scheduled for Sunday has been rescheduled due to the lack of conferees appointed by the Senate. The committee meeting, to be chaired by Rep. Jim Davnie (DFL – Minneapolis), will include an overview of each chamber’s version of the legislation and will review the funding differences.
WHAT: First Meeting of the House/Senate Conference Committee on the Education Budget, HF 2400
WHO: Rep. Jim Davnie (DFL – Minneapolis), committee members
WHERE: Room 5, State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul
WHEN: 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 6
The House DFL E-12 budget makes honest investments in every student, in every public school with a 3% per-pupil funding increase in 2020, and another 2% in 2021. The House education budget also addresses special education funding shortfalls, enables schools to hire more student support staff, gives schools more tools to recruit and retain teachers of color, protects access to voluntary pre-K for over 4,000 Minnesota’s earliest learners, and expands post-secondary opportunities for high school students. Testifying on the budget will be Education Commissioner Mary Cathryn Ricker.