E-12 Education Conference Committee Co-Chair Davnie announces public hearing Wednesday Afternoon

SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA — The joint House/Senate Conference Committee tasked with developing a compromise state E-12 budget will meet Wednesday afternoon at 1:00 pm in Room 5 of the State Office Building. The committee meeting, to be chaired by Rep. Jim Davnie (DFL – Minneapolis), will include a discussion about career and technical investments in the House budget, with Education Commissioner Mary Cathryn Ricker to provide public testimony.

WHAT: 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: 1:00 pm, Wednesday, May 15

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 of Minnesota’s earliest learners, and expands post-secondary opportunities for high school students.