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A bipartisan effort to increase public school funding without increasing taxes will be on the ballot Tuesday.
Minnesota voters will decide whether districts receive nearly double what they previously received from the state’s permanent school fund.
RELATED: Proposed increase in public school funding will be on the ballot in November
The permanent school trust fund was created when Minnesota became a state in 1858 after the federal government donated millions of acres of land to states west of the Mississippi. Minnesota decided to direct the proceeds from leased mineral rights and timberland to go directly to public schools.
Under current law, 2.5% of the fund goes to schools every year. The proposed constitutional amendment would change that to 4.5%.
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