Let's start with education. You've probably been hearing some pretty negative things about my education budget, most of them not true. We'll start with K-12 funding. That doesn't leave a lot of money for helping our kids out in the classroom, beyond paying the teachers better. And that's fine, to a point.
Teachers are generally underpaid and underappreciated.
But we've got to see better management in the districts. We're seeing countless examples of districts negotiating with money they don't have. Sure, it's money they're counting on getting, but look what happens when they don't get it. They're in trouble, and the first place they look for help is the good old state of Minnesota. I'm not seeing either of those things, and that's what I need to see before I'll blindly spend even more of the people's money.