For decades, Minnesota has subsidized private schools. Gov. Tim Walz wants to cut $109 million

MINNEAPOLIS – Students at St. John Paul II Catholic School in northeast Minneapolis hopped onto buses last week – beneficiaries of a decades-old state law guaranteeing free transportation to nonpublic school students.

Principal Tricia Menzhuber, surveying the scene, said that if state aid were taken away, “We’d lose most of these kids.”

Now, to the surprise of many, that threat is real…

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