Minnesota voters will decide whether to amend the state’s constitution to increase school funding without raising taxes.
The constitutional amendment would increase the annual distribution of the state’s Permanent School Fund to public schools throughout Minnesota.
The fund was established shortly after Minnesota’s statehood in 1858. It dates from a piece of legislation initially passed by the Continental Congress that established a way to pay for public education. As new states formed, the federal government granted them certain sections of land to be set aside to fund public schools…