Walter Hudson's latest legislative update; unfunded mandate edition
In his update, Rep. Hudson wrote "While bipartisan agreements have been reached on omnibus finance bills covering several areas of the budget, K-12 education remains a major sticking point. Unfortunately, we're still at a standstill, locked in opposite corners on how to address the dire situation Democrats when they had total control of the Capitol over the past two years."
It's worth remembering that, in addition to spending every pennyof that record surplus, the DFL also raised Minnesotans' taxes by $9,000,000,000. Not only did the DFL spend the entire surplus and the entire tax increase, the DFL reneged on Gov. Walz's $2,000 Walz Check promise.
Hudson continued, saying "In 2023, Minnesota had an $18 billion surplus. Democrats spent every penny, directing over a billion dollars to nonprofits which operate beyond the oversight of elected officials. We’ve seen story after story about nonprofits misusing taxpayer dollars, with questionable and sometimes fraudulent activity, all happening with virtually no scrutiny."
This is important,too:
At the same time, school districts have been treated as if they can't be trusted to manage their own affairs or put students first. They've been micromanaged, second-guessed, and burdened with red tape.There's nothing worse than hiring a school superintendent, then telling him or her how to do their job. If you've hired a competent superintendent, let them run the show. If you've hired an incompetent superintendent, you and the superintendent should both be terminanted. This video explains things perfectly: Sen. Jason Rarick speaks to how educators told him how they couldn't use the money in the places where they needed it to be spent. LESSON: it isn't just the $$$ that are spent. It's also the strings that are attached by outsiders! Untie the school districts' hands. Let educators educate.
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